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
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system_health Extended Events in Azure SQL Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The system_health Extended Events session is incredibly useful. Further, it’s running, by default, in every server you have under management...

2019-03-04

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Query Store and a READ_ONLY Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

What happens in Query Store when the database itself is READ_ONLY? Yeah, I don’t know. Let’s find out. READ_ONLY The...

2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-11)

2,091 reads

How Do You Export A Database in Azure Data Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve been writing a bunch about Azure Data Studio. I’ve also been recording videos on the topic. A comment I received recently asked how to export a database from...

2019-02-25

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Installing Extensions to Azure Data Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re even thinking about experimenting with, let alone actively using, Azure Data Studio, you need to plan on installing a few extensions. Buck Woody has a great list...

2019-02-18

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Installing Extensions to Azure Data Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’re even thinking about experimenting with, let alone actively using, Azure Data Studio, you need to plan on installing...

2019-02-18

313 reads

Input Into Azure Data Studio

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I see more and more people starting to use Azure Data Studio. As it keeps growing and expanding, it’s going...

2019-02-15 (first published: 2019-01-28)

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Query Store and a READ_ONLY Database

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

What happens in Query Store when the database itself is READ_ONLY? Yeah, I don’t know. Let’s find out. READ_ONLY The only way to find out how this works is...

2019-02-11

6 reads

Combine Extended Events and TagWith to Monitor Entity Framework

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m going to start with a sentence that makes a lot of people crazy; As a DBA and database developer, I love Entity Framework. That’s right. Entity Framework is...

2019-02-04

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