A Little Appreciation

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A Little Appreciation

Grant Fritchey

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July 30, 2025 at 1:28 am

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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 76219 More actions · Answer 1

If I had to credit one person with the success in my career, it would be Steve.

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135554 More actions · Answer 2

There is no such thing as "an easy job" !

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P Jones SSChampion Points: 12373 More actions · Answer 3

I want to add my appreciation for all that you as a team do to run SQL Server Central and for having provided me with that backstop I needed to fulfil my DBA and developer role over the past 20 years. Long may it continue.

donald.parish SSC-Addicted Points: 430 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks for covering, Grant and Kellyn. And thanks, Steve Jones. Been reading SQLServer Central first thing in morning for over a decade. I'm more of a Power Pivot guy, but getting into SQL DB finally after all these years. Who needs a lakebase, baselake when you can have a real database!

Bob Razumich SSCrazy Points: 2157 More actions · Answer 5

Grant,

Trust me (or us), we can all empathize with the experience of "taking over", either temporarily or permanently, someone else's work. From my point of view, there is no evidence, other than the subbing of you and others on the daily blog, that anything is amiss or missing. And as long as you don't execute DROP DATABASE or FORMAT C: (does that even still work?) I rather doubt anyone will hold any minor errors against you.

Mr. Brian Gale SSC-Insane Points: 24968 More actions · Answer 6

Mistakes happen - it's how we learn. Plus, systems and/or processes and/or policies should be set up to minimize the chance of mistakes. If a big mistake happens, that means the system, process, or policy is inadequate and should be adjusted.

I am grateful for this forum as it helps me keep on top of SQL and help others. Sure my answers are sometimes wrong, but that's how I learn. Sometimes my answers are correct and I help others learn.

I have honestly not noticed issues with the forum and actually see fewer issues than I remember in the past. I remember a lot of times typing up a post, hitting submit and it disappears - didn't get posted and the text box goes blank. Only issue I've noticed recently is email notifications of replies and PM's seems to have stopped working. But not sure if that is a bug with SSC or my email provider and since I'm not seeing a lot of people complaining about that, I suspect it's my email provider.

And like Bob Razumich said - most of us have had the "taking over" experience before and it's always a learning curve. And with his FORMAT comment, he missed the /AUTOTEST option which doesn't do what you think it does - it formats without prompts. That is the "silent" or "quiet" flag. I remember way back in the day, trolls used to say that it would "test" your disk but not actually do the format. It would do the preliminary format checks then stop hence "TEST" in the option. But for whatever reason, Microsoft decided that was the equivalent of a SILENT option for FORMAT.

The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

netmikem SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4009 More actions · Answer 7

I feel the need to pipe up here. Earlier this year, I found myself seeking employment, a daunting task for somebody my age.

I got to the point where I had to reluctantly lean heavily on my network. I've never met Steve before but like many of you, I feel like I've known him for years due to the SQL Central site that I've read daily for decades. I sent him a LinkedIn message.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear back from him and he provided me with a contact in my city.

Kudos Steve!

P.S. I did eventually find work but with another contact.

This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by netmikem.

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399289 More actions · Answer 8

Thanks all for the feedback.

For some reason (I'll take the blame, but I don't know what I did) I'm not receiving emails on stuff I'm subscribed to. Weirdness. Working on it.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004646 More actions · Answer 9

I have to give Steve a huge amount of credit for my success... he's kept this site going and he encouraged me to write articles. This site was also a huge resource when it came providing real-world problems for many to solve and a lot of THE most correct solutions can still be found in the question discussions and in the discussions attached to articles.

Heh... in thanks, I should write an article titled "Does Your Website Have a Steve?"

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mr. Steve Jones.

And, thank you, Mr. Grant Fritchey... You're one of the greats and you wouldn't be here if Steve didn't think so, as well.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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