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Grant Fritchey

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I have over thirty years experience working in technical support, development and database administration. I'm work for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder. I write articles for publication at SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. I present sessions at events, large and small, all around the world and online. I work with both SQL Server and PostgreSQL and have authored multiple books on a variety of topics related to databases and data management. ...more

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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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	SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled by Grant Fritchey (Goodreads Author), Sajal Dam 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQL Server Execution Plans 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQL Server 2012 Query Performance Tuning by Grant Fritchey (Goodreads Author), Sajal Dam 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQL Server Query Performance Tuning by Grant Fritchey (Goodreads Author), Grant Fritchey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQL Server 2017 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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Dead Man's Hand (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #1)

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AMERICAN APOCALYPSE : The Second American Civil War

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