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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I Am Running For the PASS Board of Directors: #passvotes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This year, I submitted my application to run for the PASS Board and it was accepted. This then is my...

2014-09-22 (first published: 2014-09-17)

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A Manager or a Community Person: #PASSVotes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I am running for the PASS Board. You can read more about what I’ve posted and what others have to...

2014-09-19

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PASS Summit 2014 Pre-Conference Seminar

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m putting on a pre-conference seminar (also known as a pre-con) at the PASS Summit this year. I’m really honored...

2014-09-16

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Podcast on Devops and the Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been attempting to expand my reach to get back to my roots in development. I’m doing this because I...

2014-09-15

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Statistics in SQL Server

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve put together a new Curah! of links to some of the better articles on SQL Server Statistics, specifically those...

2014-09-15 (first published: 2014-09-10)

7,392 reads

It’s All Fundamentals

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m learning how to speak German. Interestingly enough, you don’t start off reading dissertations. Instead, you begin by learning the...

2014-09-09

823 reads

Left or Right?

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

No, this is not about politics. It’s about your WHERE clause… and your JOIN criteria… and your HAVING clause. It’s about a...

2014-09-08 (first published: 2014-09-03)

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Speaker of the Month: September 2014

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This month I’m very grateful because I was given the opportunity to present at DevLink in Chattanooga. I got to...

2014-09-05

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Silliness for an Important Cause

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I don’t mind saying that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, scares me. A degenerative disease...

2014-08-21

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The Red Gate Way…

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As companies go, Red Gate is a little different. That is readily apparent in our tools and the philosophy behind...

2014-08-20

749 reads

Blogs

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

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

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

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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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