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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Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was looking at performance of a database and I noticed a few of the plans were very large and...

2011-05-30

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Oh ****!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Did you ever accidentally close SQL Server Management Studio? And, in closing SSMS, did you get the prompt that says...

2011-05-25

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SQL Azure Query Tuning

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

SQL Azure is still SQL Server at the end of the day. This means it is entirely possible to write...

2011-05-23

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Summit Preference Voting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This year the PASS organization is asking us to vote on the PASS Summit 2011 sessions, not as a means...

2011-05-18

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PASS Summit 2011 Abstracts

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve put in several abstracts for the 2011 Summit. This year we’re voting for preferred sessions. If you’re interested in...

2011-05-10

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SQL Azure Migration Wizard

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There’s a project over on code plex to come up with a mechanism for validating databases and generating the necessary...

2011-05-09

1,307 reads

I’ve got 99 Problems, but a disk ain’t one

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tom LaRock has a new meme for Meme Monday. It’s all about the problems caused in your system other than...

2011-05-02

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SQL Azure and the DAC Pac

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

When last we left our intrepid hero he had successfully deployed to SQL Azure using the Data-Tier Application Package, a...

2011-05-02

1,901 reads

SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome once more to the Miskatonic branch of SQL University. I see that most off you survived out last encounter…...

2011-04-28

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SQL Azure Diagnostic Tool

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the CSS Engineers from Microsoft has released a diagnostic tool for SQL Azure. It’s worth a look. It’s...

2011-04-26

1,014 reads

Blogs

AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases

By Vinay Thakur

Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...

AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

By Vinay Thakur

Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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