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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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 2

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Bob Muglia opened with January 13, 1988, when the Microsoft Sybase Ashton-Tate SQL Server program was launched. Apparently Bill Gates...

2009-11-03

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PASS Tuesday Key Note – Part 3

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Now up is Ted Kummert of Microsoft.
He’s giving us a good overview of some of the technology coming up. He’s...

2009-11-03

547 reads

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

363 reads

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

1,388 reads

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

576 reads

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

878 reads

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

699 reads

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

582 reads

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

553 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

1,639 reads

Blogs

“We love to debate minutiae”

By Brian Kelley

I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...

Advice I Like: Knots

Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

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

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Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB

Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...

Multiple Deployment Processes

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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

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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?

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