Grant Fritchey SQL Server Backup and Restore for the Accidental DBA Not everyone who is tasked with the job of ensuring that databases are backed up, and easily restorable, consider themselves to be database administrators. If... 24 May 2011 15 min read
Grant Fritchey Performing DBCC Checks Using SQL Virtual Restore Ever restored a corrupted database from the backup, only to find that the backups are corrupted too - All the backups? Sure it can happen... 07 April 2011 8 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Strategies for ‘Versioned’ Data If you keep your data according to its version number, but need to work only with a particular version, what is the best SQL for... 17 March 2011 17 min read
Grant Fritchey Change Management and Source Control So, given the many good reasons for using Version Control systems for managing the changes in database applications, how does one go about the rather... 03 March 2011 47 min read
Bob Cramblitt Red Gate’s new Scary DBA: Coming to a town near you Grant Fritchey, The Scary DBA, has now taken the leap from being a Simple-Talk author and FoRG(Friend of Red Gate) to being employed by Red... 16 February 2011 5 min read
Richard Morris Interview with the Scary DBA – Grant Fritchey For our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we chose Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past... 30 October 2009 12 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Server Execution Plans – eBook Download Why is my query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to answer these questions, you have to ask the same return... 07 October 2009 1 min read
Simple Talk Published Books Grant Fritchey in Simple Talk Published Books SQL Server Execution Plans Why is my query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to answer these questions, you have to ask the same return... 30 June 2008 4 min read
