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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Southern New England SQL Server Users Group

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tomorrow, Wednesday April 14th, is the next SNESSUG meeting. We’re going to get a great presentation from Scott Abrants on...

2010-04-13

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Seacoast SQL Users Group

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Tomorrow is the Seacost SQL Server User’s Group inaugural meeting. I’ll be presenting a session called “Understanding Execution Plans.” It’s...

2010-04-12

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Thoughts on ORM

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve posted before about issues I’m having either with behaviors of nHibernate, or behaviors of teams using nHibernate, but I...

2010-04-09

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24 Hours of PASS v2.0

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The kids over at the Professional Association of SQL Server Users have done it again. They’re hosting 24 Hours of...

2010-04-06

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Confio Ignite: First Impressions

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the national sponsors for SQL Satuday is Confio Software. Just because they sponsor SQL Saturday, it’s worth checking out their...

2010-04-06

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nHibernate, First Look at TSQL

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve blogged in the past about the nHibernate project that has been going on at my company for the last...

2010-04-05

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Renewed as an MVP

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...

2010-04-01

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SQL Saturday #39 New York

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down. The people...

2010-03-23

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Undocumented Virtual Column: %%lockres%

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of my development teams needed a mechanism for identifying the value of a key that was part of a...

2010-03-18

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SNESSUG March Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...

2010-03-15

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

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Superseded Indexes

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Superseded Indexes

Which of these indexes is superseded by another?

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