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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We Stink!

You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]

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2024-07-27

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Shout Your Successes

I was at a customer this week (sorry, can't share who). I spent the day talking about Redgate Monitor and how it can help with query tuning, server management, and estate management. Through the day, the data pros at the company were sharing how they were managing hundreds of servers and several thousand databases. They […]

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2024-06-29

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Six Months!

Oh good gosh. Six months without a single blog post. Most important information: I’m not dead. Apologies. The issue is pretty simple. I’m getting old. Ha! Seriously though, I...

2024-06-17

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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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