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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SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Nice to see most of you have managed to fight your way through the shoggoths outside to attend another lecture...

2010-07-23

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SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Second

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Welcome once more to the Miskatonic branch of SQL University. Please try to concentrate. I realize the whipoorwills singing outside...

2010-07-21

663 reads

SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the First

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Right, all eldritch tomes are to be closed and Elder Signs are to be put away during this course.
Welcome to...

2010-07-19

753 reads

SQL University: Introduction to Indexes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

For some crazy reason (probably everyone is on vacation), Jorge Segarra (blog|twitter) who runs SQL University has asked me to...

2010-07-16

541 reads

Steve Jones to Run for PASS Board

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I couldn’t hide the lead. Steve Jones (blog|twitter) has announced he’s running for the PASS board. I’m excited. I’m almost as...

2010-07-16

939 reads

In the Clouds

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The July meeting for the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group is tonight. Andrew Novick will be talking about...

2010-07-14

800 reads

Red Gate SQL Source Control

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You just have to love Red Gate tools. They find the small area that they want to cover and then...

2010-07-14

1,857 reads

Delivering the Bad News

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s a Friday, the day governments & companies traditionally deliver bad news. I recived the bad news earlier in the week,...

2010-07-09

713 reads

Small PowerShell Script

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m still trying to learn PowerShell better. The opportunity to answer simple questions and problems with the tool is hard...

2010-07-06

1,189 reads

One of these things is not like the other

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m working with PowerShell, and digging it. I decided that I wanted to create a new script (blog post later,...

2010-06-30

2,075 reads

Blogs

Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant

A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many...

My 2024 in Data: Music

This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...

A New Word: Suente

suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...

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Forums

Vendor claims unused table space impacts performance

Hello experts, I got a report from an application owner of degraded performance for...

Automating Export of PowerQuery to SQL Server using DAX Studio...?

I wrote a PowerQuery that parses a table from a PDF, and I want...

Attaching an SQL Server database without Transaction Log Files through SQL Server Management Studio.

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Attaching an SQL Server database...

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Question of the Day

Superseded Indexes

Which of these indexes is superseded by another?

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