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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Website: https://scarydba.com
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SNESSUG March Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...

2010-03-15

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Location of the PASS Summit Follow-up

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got a little distracted after lunch and was reading through some of the various bloggers reactions to the decision...

2010-03-11

618 reads

Location of the PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

There has been some discussion recently around the location of the PASS Summit. The debate was centered on the results...

2010-03-10

861 reads

Blog Anniversary

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Two years old. In March of 2008 I received a whopping 96 visits. I’m up to 1900 so far this...

2010-03-09

534 reads

MacGyver?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Who the heck is MacGyver? Television program you say? Hang on. I need to visit imdb.com…
Oh, the late eighties… Yeah,...

2010-03-08

678 reads

PowerShell for Batch Operations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...

2010-03-01

1,687 reads

Help with Learning Powershell

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re not reading Buck Woody’s blog, why not? Today he posted a helpful hint for getting performance counters directly...

2010-02-26

1,397 reads

So You Want to Write a Book?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

What the heck is wrong with you?
Still interested? Fine. I’ll tell you my take on this whole business. I’m only...

2010-02-19

701 reads

Buck Woody on Code Writing Code

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I realize I’m prejudiced, being one of those evil DBA’s & all, but I can’t help but agree with him. It’s...

2010-02-16

779 reads

nHibernate Database, First Look

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m getting my first look at a full-fledged nHibernate database developed by consultants for our company. I thought I’d share...

2010-02-15

1,289 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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