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Expert SQL Server Consulting

Straight Path’s 17 FTEs are SQL Server consultants – many with 20-30 years of experience. Offering Microsoft SQL Server database troubleshooting, monitoring and maintenance, migrations, and upgrades from small businesses to large enterprises. SQL Server consulting is our full-time job – this isn’t a side gig or a one-person show.

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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 SQL Server 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 by our SQL Server consulting team. 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 are on your team, not your payroll. 15-minute P1 SLA. Priced per hour, not by instance.

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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. We use them in our own consulting engagements – you can use them also.

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SQL Server maintenance tools - DbaMaintenanceSolution

Standardize SQL Server Maintenance Quickly and Easily Using Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution

Introduction In this blog post, we will audit the dbatools command Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. I will test, review, and evaluate the script based on a series of identical steps. Our goal is to provide insights, warnings, and recommendations to help you use this script effectively and safely Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution is the key to simple, reliable, and comprehensive SQL … Read more
Relativity SQL Server

Relativity, SQL Server, and some Links

We are happy to be sponsoring Relativity Fest again this year. It’s my 4th Relativity Fest, I believe. I’ll also be speaking alongside a couple of Relativians (or whatever they should be called post name change. I used to say kCurians) from the support and kIE team on managing huge case workloads. I wanted to throw … 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
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