Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey is a SQL Server MVP with over 20 years’ experience in IT including time spent in support and development. Grant has worked with SQL Server since version 6.0 back in 1995. He has developed in VB, VB.Net, C# and Java. Grant has authored books for Apress and Simple-Talk, and joined Red Gate as a Product Advocate in January 2011. Find Grant on Twitter @GFritchey or on his blog as the Scary DBA.

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PASS Keynote Shots

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Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here:...

Microsoft AI Red Teaming Course

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here is the compiled video of the Red Teaming course Microsoft put together.

What’s New at AWS re:Invent 2025 – Day2 Highlights

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Day 2 kicked off with Matt Garman’s keynote, and he opened with a quote...

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Veeam Backup DAG issue. Access to availability group is not permitted.

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Hi all,   Has anyone encountered an issue whereby using a distributed availability group...

need to kill long running SPIDs

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hi, i have seen in my server sometimes some SPIDs get stuck. so we...

Improving update statistics process for 6 big tables

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Recently I was asked to investigate the update statistics process on a particular database....

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Question of the Day

Adding a Lot of Seconds

When does this code work and when does it fail? 

DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01';

SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];

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