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Expert SQL Server Consulting

Most of Straight Path’s 18 Team Members are Senior 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 Partition Management Job Failure After Migration to Availabiltiy Group.

SQL Server case study of the week

This is the first post in our new Case of the Week series — short write-ups from the real SQL Server issues our team of 17 SQL Server experts helps clients solve every day. Case of the Week: SQL Server Partition Job Failure after Migration from AWS FCI to AWS AG. Quick Summary A client … Read more
Performance Dashboard - QOS Report

Relativity & SQL Server – A Free Built-In Health Check

I’m on the return home from Relativity Fest. This post has been in a few draft forms for a long time now but in the session that Jared, Carlo and I gave, and a couple of the questions we ended up hearing put the fire back into finishing my thoughts here and clicking publish. In … 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