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.

Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
Website: https://scarydba.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/

Resources for Learning Azure Data Platform

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You want to start working with Azure and the Azure Data Platform, but getting started is not easy. Just knowing...

2016-06-10 (first published: 2016-06-02)

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Independent Azure Data Platform Instructors

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The Azure Data Platform is taking off. I’m seeing more and more interest on the forums, at conferences and in...

2016-06-01

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Precedence Goes to Query Store or Plan Guide?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

While presenting at SQLDay in Wroclaw, Poland, on the Query Store, I was asked a pretty simple question, which takes...

2016-05-31

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A Moment For Reflection…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

While this is a personal blog, I try to keep it focused on either technical topics or personal development and...

2016-05-25

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On the Buckeye Blitz!

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In just a few weeks I’ll be doing the Buckeye Blitz. That is, a tour of user groups in Ohio...

2016-05-24

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PASS Board 2016: Update #3

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I didn’t post an update last month, but I did do something more important: I elicited your feedback on a question...

2016-05-23

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Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...

2016-05-23 (first published: 2016-05-16)

2,707 reads

Use The Correct Data Type

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...

2016-05-18 (first published: 2016-05-12)

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Implicit Conversion and Performance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...

2016-05-03

587 reads

How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...

2016-05-02

969 reads

Blogs

How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide

By Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...

Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle

The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...

A New Word: Mornden

mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...

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Question of the Day

Renaming a Database

If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)

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