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
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/

Random Blogging Challenge Results

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...

2017-03-29

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Sharing With You In All Fifty States

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...

2017-03-28

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Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...

2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)

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Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.

I...

2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)

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SQL Clone and a Little Competition

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...

2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)

1,750 reads

Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...

2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)

1,940 reads

SQL Clone

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...

2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)

2,139 reads

I Don’t Understand

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...

2017-03-03 (first published: 2017-02-24)

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Random Blog Post Challenge

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...

2017-03-02

394 reads

Confusion of An Old Technologist

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...

2017-02-23

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Blogs

How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide

By Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...

Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle

The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...

A New Word: Mornden

mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...

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What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?

Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...

Blob Storage automated downloads

By Brandie Tarvin

Dipping my toes into the waters of Azure and of course before I get...

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Question of the Day

Running Steve's Code

Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?

CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
    
        SELECT Consumer_ID ,
               Trend_Category ,
               Bit_Trace
        FROM    NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
    
GO

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