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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No Join Predicate

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You could be looking at an execution plan on a query and see this message: Warning, No Join Predicate. With...

2009-09-15

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Editorial on SQL Server Central

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

My first one over there. It’s discussing whether or not you should do two things, build your own monitoring tool,...

2009-09-14

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LaRock on Monitoring

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Since I just spent a bit more than half of my 24 Hours of PASSpresentation on tuning queries talking about...

2009-09-11

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Spools in Execution Plans

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got the question the other day, when are you likely to see a spool in an execution plan? Easy,...

2009-09-09

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Debuting: Beginning SQL Server 2008 Administration

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The new book is up on Amazon. I only worked on three chapters of Rob Walter’s new book and that...

2009-09-04

625 reads

#ActiveAugust Final Post

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I haven’t done well with this. I missed a post. I missed a bunch of workouts. I put on weight....

2009-08-29

1,327 reads

SQL Server Standard Update

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We’ve received wonderful support from the community. Brad McGehee has a list with great people on it who have volunteered...

2009-08-29

1,657 reads

New Book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Well, three chapters. The latest book I worked on is up at Apress. I only have three chapters in this...

2009-08-25

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PASS Board Nominations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I think the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) is an extremely important organization for SQL Server DBA’s. Even...

2009-08-25

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What happens when you use WITH RECOMPILE

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I saw this question and my immediate thought was “Well, duh, the execution plan is recreated by a recompile.” But,...

2009-08-21

1,325 reads

Blogs

In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026

By Brian Kelley

I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...

EightKB 2026

By Andrew Pruski

EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...

The FinOps Lifecycle: From Budgeting to Reporting

Working in DevOps long enough teaches you two universal truths: That’s exactly why I...

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query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS

Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...

SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database

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Hidden Heroes

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

Identities and Sequences I

When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?

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