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/

PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....

2009-11-02

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More PASS Activities

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As if I needed more.
I’ll be sitting at the blogger table and blogging live (as live as I get) during...

2009-10-30

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I Started a Fight

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I had no idea, but evidently I started a bit of a donny-brook. Cool!

2009-10-28

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Snags With Profiler GUI

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Running the Profiler GUI against a production server is not something you should do. I’ve outlined my research into exactly...

2009-10-28

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SQL Server Standard, Volume 6, Issue #1

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s alive! It’s alive!
That’s enough from Colin Clive.
It’ll be out for the Summit. SQL Server Standard lives again! Although, not quite in...

2009-10-27

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PASS Summit One Week Away

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

It’s just a week and a couple of days before I’ll be hopping a plane for Seattle and the 2009...

2009-10-23

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Birds Of a Feather Lunch

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The PASS Summit agenda is shaping up and it’s already looking to be much busier than last year. The latest...

2009-10-21

550 reads

Characters

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had...

2009-10-21

1,633 reads

Free Training RIGHT NOW

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Quest Connect 2009 is occurring even as I type this. Get on over there if you’re interested in some free...

2009-10-21

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SNESSUG October Meeting

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The Southern New England SQL Server Users Group’s October meeting was a bit sparsely attended with 7 attendees. The sponsor...

2009-10-15

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Blogs

When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?

By Joyful-Craftsmen

The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a...

How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide

By Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...

Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle

The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...

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Renaming a Database

If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)

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