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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The SQL Server Community

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I attended, and spoke at, the inaugural meeting of the Seacoast SQL Server User’s group last night. There were about...

2010-04-14

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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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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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Hidden Heroes

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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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