Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-20
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Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
I’ve got a couple of more sessions before the big two at the PASS Summit. Tomorrow night, October 20th, I’ll...
2010-10-19
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Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
2010-10-18
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Scary DBA Takes Over the World
Or, at least gets translated into Russian.
I realize I’m effectively a 10 year old, but, come on, HOW COOL IS...
2010-10-15
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Working the Door
You know those guys that work the door at clubs, seperating the wheat from the chaff, culling the herd, Choosing the Slain, sifting...
2010-10-14
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PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
The absolute biggest part of the PASS Summit is the one thing that most people don’t take advantage of, networking....
2010-10-13
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Speaking at SNESSUG
I’ll be presenting tonight at the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG). The topic is “Using DMVs as...
2010-10-13
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SQL Saturday New England: The New Date
The real world can get in the way of important things like SQL Saturday. In the case of SQL Saturday...
2010-10-12
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SQL Saturday New England: The Date
Mark your calendars. Make your travel arrangements. Plan on being in the Boston area on April 16th, 2011. Three of...
2010-10-05
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How to Tell if Execution Plans are Reused
I try to watch the search phrases that point people to the blog because sometimes, you get a sense of...
2010-10-04
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Blogs
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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