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/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gfritchey.bsky.social

Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Log in or register to rate

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2010-10-20

4,525 reads

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve got a couple of more sessions before the big two at the PASS Summit. Tomorrow night, October 20th, I’ll...

2010-10-19

713 reads

Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...

2010-10-18

3,164 reads

Scary DBA Takes Over the World

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Or, at least gets translated into Russian.
I realize I’m effectively a 10 year old, but, come on, HOW COOL IS...

2010-10-15

600 reads

Working the Door

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

You know those guys that work the door at clubs, seperating the wheat from the chaff, culling the herd, Choosing the Slain, sifting...

2010-10-14

713 reads

PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The absolute biggest part of the PASS Summit is the one thing that most people don’t take advantage of, networking....

2010-10-13

593 reads

Speaking at SNESSUG

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ll be presenting tonight at the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG). The topic is “Using DMVs as...

2010-10-13

688 reads

SQL Saturday New England: The New Date

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The real world can get in the way of important things like SQL Saturday. In the case of SQL Saturday...

2010-10-12

564 reads

SQL Saturday New England: The Date

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Mark your calendars. Make your travel arrangements. Plan on being in the Boston area on April 16th, 2011. Three of...

2010-10-05

543 reads

How to Tell if Execution Plans are Reused

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I try to watch the search phrases that point people to the blog because sometimes, you get a sense of...

2010-10-04

446 reads

Blogs

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

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

March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates

By Brian Kelley

On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...

How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

By Meagan Longoria

When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Multiple Deployment Processes

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Deployment Processes

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

Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Use sqlpackage to...

Upgrading Admin Queries

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Upgrading Admin Queries

Visit the forum

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?

See possible answers