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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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SQL Server database backup tool for checking recoverability issues

Introducing sp_CheckBackup: Check Your SQL Server Backups for Recoverability Issues

Whether you are backing up your SQL Server databases with Ola Hallengren’s scripts, Maintenance Plans, or some third-party software, your backups are your lifeline for recovering your data in case of a disaster. So…are your databases recoverable? Do you know WHERE your most recent backups were written? Do you know WHEN they were written? Did … Read more
Security Audit SQL

SQL Server Security Audits – A Confession

When clients need help, bugs require patching and production deadlines loom large, it’s easy to think that cutting a few corners is the “right thing” to do. I’ve done it, and I’m willing to bet that many of you have as well. Doing so puts the security of your company’s data at risk and makes … Read more
Career Lessons from firefighting

A Couple Lessons in Leadership from the Fire Service

I normally don’t wear hats. But when I do, I own a few. There’s the sun-proof hat while doing chores on the tractor and the ball cap when I go to the beach with the family. Or the Husqvarna safety helmet when cutting all the firewood we use to heat the house on the homestead … Read more
The Key to Relativity SQL Server Performance

Relativity SQL Server – What I Wish You Know

We’ve been working with Relativity for at least 4 or 5 years now here at Straight Path. Helping clients with their Relativity SQL Server environments. Helping folks get the most performance out of their Relativity SQL Servers.  Running our SQL Server Health Checks for many firms. From small firms to a few on the AmLaw … Read more
How to Choose a SQL Server Health Check

How to Choose a SQL Server Health Check

You already know how important it is to perform a SQL Server health check. That’s why you’re reading this. The question isn’t whether to do one but, “How?” In this article, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of the following options: Roll your own Download free scripts Pay someone Option 1: Roll Your Own SQL … Read more
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