Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Evangelist. Grant has 20 years experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. 

Grant volunteers for the Professional Association of SQL Server Users (PASS) currently serving on the Board of Directors as the Executive Vice President.

Grant is an active participant in the SQL Server Central discussion forums. He writes articles for SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He blogs regularly at scarydba.com. Grant is the author of the books "SQL Server Query Performance Tuning" and "SQL Server Execution Plans." He is co-author on the books "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2," "Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration," "Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices," and "Expert Performance Indexing in SQL Server."

Grant's nickname is "The Scary DBA."