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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PASS Summit 2013: Women In Technology Luncheon

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This year I was invited to attend the Women In Technology luncheon as a blogger. So I’ll be live-blogging it...

2013-10-17

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PASS Summit 2013 Day 1 Keynote

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I am liveblogging the keynote from the bloggers table at the PASS Summit again this year. Just keep scrolling.
Watching the...

2013-10-16

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Speaker of the Month, October 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...

2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)

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Azure Account and Spending Limits

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...

2013-10-08

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An Experiment Concludes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...

2013-09-30

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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...

2013-09-27

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PASS Votes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...

2013-09-26

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AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

While I have production databases in Azure, I can’t exactly experiment with them at will. Further, while they mostly have...

2013-09-25

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Premium Database on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the things that can make Windows Azure SQL Databases (WASD) attractive is the fact that they run inside...

2013-09-24

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Why the Lazy Spool Is Bad

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

First thing, there are no bad operators, just bad parents, uh, I mean query writers, or database designers, or ORM...

2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-16)

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Blogs

“We love to debate minutiae”

By Brian Kelley

I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...

Advice I Like: Knots

Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB

Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...

Multiple Deployment Processes

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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases

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Question of the Day

Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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