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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Carolina Cruise

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m going to speak at three user groups in three days in North and South Carolina. Evidently this is known...

2014-05-09

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Speaker of the Month, May 2014

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...

2014-05-02

1,190 reads

Microsoft Azure Automation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

Microsoft just announced a new mechanism for managing your Azure resources, Automation. You can check out the documentation on it...

2014-04-24 (first published: 2014-04-16)

1,781 reads

Azure Automation

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I introduced Azure Automation in a previous post. I’ve spent some more time exploring it.
There’s a set of documentation available...

2014-04-23

1,379 reads

I Am Better Than You

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That is a patently false statement and total BS. It sure does crawl up your spine though doesn’t it? Why...

2014-04-22

933 reads

SQL Server First Aid

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you take basic first aid, say a CPR course, you’ll learn a handy mnemonic for the primary assessment you...

2014-04-15

1,116 reads

Sharing a Good Idea

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I posted earlier about my experiments with Microsoft Curah!. (yes, technically the period should follow the exclamation since the exclamation...

2014-04-14

581 reads

Speaker of the Month, April 2014

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m really enjoying picking a speaker of the month. It forces me to sit through a lot more sessions at...

2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-04)

1,203 reads

I’m a Traveling Man

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We are coming into quite a busy time for my speaking schedule. I’m hitting the road. It does one thing...

2014-04-10

790 reads

Curation and Performance

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’m trying out a new web site from Microsoft called Curah! that is all about curation. Curation is basically what...

2014-04-08

804 reads

Blogs

Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency

As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...

March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates

By Brian Kelley

On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...

How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025

By Meagan Longoria

When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...

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Multiple Deployment Processes

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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases

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Upgrading Admin Queries

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Question of the Day

Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?

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