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Expert SQL Server Consulting

Straight Path SQL offers Microsoft SQL Server database troubleshooting, monitoring and maintenance, migrations, and upgrades from small businesses to large enterprises.

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Our consultants are SQL Server experts who can solve your SQL Server problems and keep them from coming back.

Database management has never been this easy. The Straight Path team is full of database gurus who can help you speed it up, sort it out or set it up right. Client satisfaction has increased because problems are solved and workflows are positively impacted. As a result, I am sleeping like a baby knowing our databases are being watched and managed diligently. I don’t know what we’d do without them.

–Dean Tammam, Red Key Solutions

SQL Server Consulting Services

DBA as a Service

Remote, senior DBAs and SQL Server consultants on your team, not on your payroll.

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Cloud

We can plan and execute your move to the cloud. We can optimize your costs.

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Upgrades

Expert, painless, set-it-and-forget-it SQL Server upgrades.

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sp_check – Free SQL Server Resources

Our SQL Server consultants have developed a set of community tools that help keep your SQL Server secure and healthy. They’re free, easy to use, and ungated.

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sp_FindOrphanedUser

Managing Orphaned Users in SQL Server with sp_FindOrphanedUser

Addressing orphaned users is an important piece of SQL Server security management. When left unchecked, you can accumulate an overwhelming number of users that exist in a database but do not have a correlating login in the master database, thus preventing access to the server or the database at all. There are dbatools PowerShell modules … Read more
SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Series

Why Upgrade SQL Server? SQL Server Upgrade Webinar Episode 1

This article is part of our SQL Server Upgrades Made Easy series: Why Upgrade? Before You Upgrade During Your Upgrade After Your Upgrade Recap Chat Upgrading SQL Server – Week 1 “Why, Why, Why!” This is the first video from the series from two weeks ago. This is an introduction to the SQL Server upgrade … Read more

Tara’s favorite SQL Server 2012+ Feature

If you’re still on SQL Server 2008/2008 R2, you’re missing out on some great features. It’s no secret that Availability Groups are my favorite feature since SQL Server 2012. Back in the day, I was supporting complex environments with aggressive SLAs. On one particular system, I had Failover Clustering for HA, Asynchronous Database Mirroring for … Read more

What do YOU want to learn about?

I just finished the first week of our SQL Server Upgrade webinar series webinars. It went well. In fact – I’m pumped up! Because the interactions were significant, the feedback was good, and I think my primary goal is going to be reached – help people out.  It’s funny – just doing that 35/40 minutes of … Read more

SQL Server 2008 is Dead…

… Long live that other SQL Server version you should have upgraded from long ago … It’s January of 2019. 2019 and I’m writing a post reminding you that you it is time to upgrade from SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2!! Eleven years later.. That’s a testament to the amazing product that SQL … Read more
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