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Grant Fritchey

Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

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 Evangelist in January 2011.

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Grant’s Recent activity

The Myth About Estimated Execution Plans
Aug 27, 2015
How you name things matters. As Buck Woody said about the original SQL Server documentation, Books Online, “They weren’t books and they weren’t online.” There are even more horrific examples. As was pointed out to ...
Query Store in Azure SQL Database
Jun 28, 2015
Have you ever had that moment when you realize that you’re dealing with bad parameter sniffing and you wish, “Oh, if only I could just quickly get another execution plan in place?” Yeah, you can use...
Indexes in Azure SQL Database v12
Jun 08, 2015
Since Azure SQL Database is just SQL Server when you get under the covers (although, you’ll never get under the covers), you’d think that it would just have the same rules and structures as SQL Server itself. Due t...
Gathering Data About Your v12 Azure SQL Database
Jun 03, 2015
One of the beautiful things about SQL Server has been the ability to more or less install it and let it run. Well, it’s a beauty until it becomes abject horror. Azure SQL Database takes the beautiful aspects of thi...
CLR Assemblies in Azure SQL Database
May 22, 2015
I know a lot of DBAs that are adamant about the exclusion of CLR on their databases. There is no subtlety or nuance or discussion with the development team about the possibilities of a given solution actually runni...
Getting Started with Azure SQL Database v12
Apr 29, 2015
I realized that I’ve been talking about the wonders and glories of the new release of SQL Database when some of you might not even be prepared to work with it. Let’s remedy that. First of all, you’ll need an Azure ...
PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015: Day 2
PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015: Day 2
Apr 22, 2015
The PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015 is for Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Data Engineers who work primarily within the Microsoft set of tools, whether locally or on Azure. Today was the end of the second...
PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015: Day 1
Apr 22, 2015
If you're involved in the analysis of data as a data engineer, data analyst or data scientist and you're using the tools from the Microsoft stack, chances are you are in Santa Clara California attending the...
Dynamic Management Views in Azure SQL Database v12
Dynamic Management Views in Azure SQL Database v12
Apr 15, 2015
When the Dynamic Management Views (DMV) were introduced back in SQL Server 2005, we got our hands on some absolutely wonderful tools that allowed us to observe much of the inner workings of SQL Server using the lan...
Introducing Azure SQL Database v12
Introducing Azure SQL Database v12
Mar 30, 2015
Those of you who are already hooked into Azure SQL Database know that v12 was in Public Preview in December of 2014 and has been available in most regions since February of this year, 2015. Despite Microsoft making a...