Grant Fritchey https://www.scarydba.com/ Intimidating Databases and Code Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:13:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 23238270 Slide Decks https://www.scarydba.com/2025/08/02/slide-decks/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/08/02/slide-decks/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:13:57 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4742 Hello everyone! Just a quick note. I’ve removed all my slide decks from SlideShare. I found they were inserting ads into the slides and I didn’t sign up for that when I initially used that platform to share my slides. My slides are now located on GitHub. I didn’t move every slide deck. I have […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/08/02/slide-decks/feed/ 2 4742 T-SQL Tuesday #187: It’s Extended Events. It’s Always Extended Events https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/10/t-sql-tuesday-187-its-extended-events-its-always-extended-events-histogram/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/10/t-sql-tuesday-187-its-extended-events-its-always-extended-events-histogram/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:05:06 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4738 Joe Fleming wants to know how I solve weird problems. I’m not sure I’m actually qualified to answer this question since I, myself, am a weird problem, but I’ll give it a shot. One aspect of my job is to provide support to our clients. No, I’m not on call (thank the gods), but I’ll […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/10/t-sql-tuesday-187-its-extended-events-its-always-extended-events-histogram/feed/ 2 4738 SSMS 21 Fixes Irritating Problem https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/09/ssms-21-fixes-irritating-problem/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/09/ssms-21-fixes-irritating-problem/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:09:34 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4735 I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that the New Session window in SSMS for Extended Events always opened to the wrong size. Here’s SSMS 20: At the bottom of the screen on the […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/06/09/ssms-21-fixes-irritating-problem/feed/ 0 4735 Query Hints and Estimated Plans https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/26/query-hints-and-estimated-plans/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/26/query-hints-and-estimated-plans/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 14:10:00 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4731 I’m working on an update to my Query Performance Tuning book for SQL Server 2025 and I found myself wondering, will a query hint be immediately apparent in an execution plan without runtime metrics (AKA, Estimated Plan)? My assumption was a resounding yes, but you have to check. Query Hint in Estimated Plan I’ve got […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/26/query-hints-and-estimated-plans/feed/ 0 4731 Do Yourself a Favor, Check Out Woodler https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/22/do-yourself-a-favor-check-out-woodler/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/22/do-yourself-a-favor-check-out-woodler/#comments Thu, 22 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4730 I recently was privileged to speak at SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland… man, I love visiting Poland… Anyway… Great event. Worth your time to attend, and if you’re a speaker, oh, you don’t want to miss this one. The data community there is just amazing. I always walk through the vendor floor to see what’s what. […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/22/do-yourself-a-favor-check-out-woodler/feed/ 2 4730 Stack Overflow & AI https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/21/stack-overflow-ai/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/21/stack-overflow-ai/#comments Wed, 21 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4726 I won’t try to pretend otherwise, I’ve had some mixed feelings about Stack Overflow for a long time. I think the concept of the place, ask a question, get an answer, is great. No question. How that was handled, tone of moderation, other stuff, maybe it wasn’t all handled as well as it could have […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/21/stack-overflow-ai/feed/ 2 4726 SSMS 21 https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/12/ssms-21/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/12/ssms-21/#comments Mon, 12 May 2025 14:38:00 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4724 Just a quick one this morning. I’m on the road and haven’t worked up a full blog post, apologies. I’ve been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio 21 for a little over a week now. You should check it out. It’s been mostly stable (I got a crash. I didn’t report it because […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/12/ssms-21/feed/ 2 4724 AI in the DBeaver Query Editor https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/05/ai-in-the-dbeaver-query-editor/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/05/ai-in-the-dbeaver-query-editor/#comments Mon, 05 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4719 You know I had to do it as soon as I found it was possible. Yes, I installed and enabled AI in the DBeaver Query Editor so I can use AI with my PostgreSQL database work. Let’s face it. It was inevitable. However, the setup isn’t intuitive. Setting Up in DBeaver I’m going to assume […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/05/05/ai-in-the-dbeaver-query-editor/feed/ 2 4719 So You Think You Should Get a Radio https://www.scarydba.com/2025/04/30/so-you-think-you-should-get-a-radio/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/04/30/so-you-think-you-should-get-a-radio/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:16:12 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4717 This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something besides SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DevOps, community or data management in general, time to move on. Figured I’d just let you know up front. In the last year there have been several very large scale emergency events, examples include Hurrican Helene in […]

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]]> https://www.scarydba.com/2025/04/30/so-you-think-you-should-get-a-radio/feed/ 0 4717 Can AI Read Execution Plans? https://www.scarydba.com/2025/04/21/can-ai-read-execution-plans/ https://www.scarydba.com/2025/04/21/can-ai-read-execution-plans/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:03:54 +0000 https://www.scarydba.com/?p=4712 Yeah, yeah, second AI post in a row. I promise not to make a habit of it. But I saw someone else mention that you can feed them XML and the AI will read the execution plan. I had to test it out and then overshare my results with all of you. We Need A […]

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