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.

Blog Post

Observing Extended Events

Sure, you can right click on a running session for Extended Events and open the Live Data window, but are there other ways of observing what Extended Events is...

2024-08-28 (first published: )

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SQLServerCentral Editorial

Outside Interests

I'm a little excited because tomorrow I'm going to my first maker's faire. I'll be volunteering with our local radio club (100 year old, W5IAS, oldest radio club in Oklahoma). In addition, I'll be showing off a few controller chips & Raspberry Pis that I use with my radios for APRS, satellite tracking, and digital […]

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2024-08-24

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Kilt Day!

This is a quick blog post to announce that I am reviving Kilt Day at PASS Data Community Summit. Over the last few years… ah hell, let’s just say...

2024-08-16 (first published: )

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Blogs

A New Word: Tangency

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tangency– n.  a fleeting glimpse of what might have been. I tend to live...

Join me at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with a discount code

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I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which...

Is Your Business Truly Ready for AI?

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The AI revolution isn’t coming – it’s here. Companies are racing to integrate artificial...

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Query Help to show record in single row

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Hi All, need help with an SQL query. We have an existing table that's...

MSDTC not available on Windows 2022 clustered SQL 2019 CU30

By Johan Bijnens

I connect to this clustered instance and run : begin distributed transaction Msg 8501,...

Time Outs Here

By Ahr Aitch

Several times in the last couple of days I've had submissions time out with...

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Question of the Day

Counting Bits III

What is the output of this code in SQL Server 2022?

select bit_count(0xEF)

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