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/

Speaker of the Month, October 2013

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...

2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)

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Azure Account and Spending Limits

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...

2013-10-08

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An Experiment Concludes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...

2013-09-30

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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...

2013-09-27

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PASS Votes

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...

2013-09-26

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AdventureWorks2012 Bug on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

While I have production databases in Azure, I can’t exactly experiment with them at will. Further, while they mostly have...

2013-09-25

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Premium Database on Azure

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

One of the things that can make Windows Azure SQL Databases (WASD) attractive is the fact that they run inside...

2013-09-24

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Why the Lazy Spool Is Bad

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

First thing, there are no bad operators, just bad parents, uh, I mean query writers, or database designers, or ORM...

2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-16)

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PASS Votes and So Should You

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

To put it bluntly, you need to go cast a vote for Allen Kinsel for the PASS Board.
In his own...

2013-09-23

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Finding Ad Hoc Queries with Query Hash

by Grant Fritchey

The Scary DBA

I was presenting a session on how to read execution plans when I received a question: Do you have a...

2013-09-20 (first published: 2013-09-18)

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Blogs

SQL Training: Black Friday Deals Up to 75% Off

By Tracy McKibben

This Black Week, don't just get a discount—get ahead! Whether you're a total newbie...

When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?

By Joyful-Craftsmen

The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a...

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...

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Learn Microsoft Fabric: A practical guide to performing data analytics in the era of artificial intelligence

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Learn Microsoft Fabric: A practical guide to performing data analytics in the era of artificial intelligence

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Rebuild Index Job on a Large DB

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Question of the Day

Renaming a Database

If I want to rename the OldSales database to ArchiveSales, how can I do this? (choose 2)

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