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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LaRock on Monitoring

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Since I just spent a bit more than half of my 24 Hours of PASSpresentation on tuning queries talking about...

2009-09-11

646 reads

Spools in Execution Plans

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I got the question the other day, when are you likely to see a spool in an execution plan? Easy,...

2009-09-09

2,717 reads

Debuting: Beginning SQL Server 2008 Administration

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The new book is up on Amazon. I only worked on three chapters of Rob Walter’s new book and that...

2009-09-04

620 reads

#ActiveAugust Final Post

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I haven’t done well with this. I missed a post. I missed a bunch of workouts. I put on weight....

2009-08-29

1,320 reads

SQL Server Standard Update

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We’ve received wonderful support from the community. Brad McGehee has a list with great people on it who have volunteered...

2009-08-29

1,651 reads

New Book

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Well, three chapters. The latest book I worked on is up at Apress. I only have three chapters in this...

2009-08-25

561 reads

PASS Board Nominations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I think the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS) is an extremely important organization for SQL Server DBA’s. Even...

2009-08-25

656 reads

What happens when you use WITH RECOMPILE

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I saw this question and my immediate thought was “Well, duh, the execution plan is recreated by a recompile.” But,...

2009-08-21

1,320 reads

Two Book Recommendations

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I have two new books that I can heartily recommend. This isn’t a review of either book since I’ve only...

2009-08-20

564 reads

SQL Server Standard Writing Guidelines

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Well, actually, these are the guidelines for submitting anything to SQLPASS, but it includes the guidelines for SQL Server Standard....

2009-08-13

1,159 reads

Blogs

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...

Side Projects

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Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...

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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition

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I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...

Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition

By IT researcher

I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...

Sql script replace and rearrange numbers

By diegodeveloper

Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...

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DCL

We have DDL, DML, and DCL. What is DCL used for?

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