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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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How to Quickly Load CSV Files Into SQL Server Using Import-DbaCsv (dbatools)

Import-DbaCsv

Most businesses are rotten with Excel sheets and CSV exports from various tools and as my mentor puts it “Excel is the world’s database”. The dbatools command Import-DbaCsv enables the quick load of CSV tables into SQL Server, which then opens up the world of fast transformation and use in other tools such as PowerBI, … Read more

2011 – A Look Back Professionally

2011 was a year of changes for me professionally. It was a good year, I definitely didn’t do as many blog posts as I should have, though. Like I’ve talked about before in my sappy 2010 year end wrap up, sometimes you forget where you’re going if you don’t take a look back at where … Read more

All I Want For Christmas Is…

I’m not going to let another #mememonday pass without a post – one thought came to mind. The theme this month is – What gift do you want Microsoft to leave under the tree this year? I don’t want much. Bill Gates is already taking care of the world, so no beauty pageant wish there. … Read more

A Global Crisis – With a Solution?

Do me a favor. Count to 45. I’ll wait…     … Ok, you can put your socks back on – there won’t be any more counting. According to most of the studies on world health, somewhere around 3 kids under the age of five just died in the time it took you to count … Read more

I’m Thankful For: Grace

I’m a broken person. I fall short of God’s Holy standard on a daily basis and that’s the definition of sin. I make mistakes. Like Paul described in Romans 7, I often find myself doing the thing I don’t want to do and not doing the thing I want to do. That’s why I’m ending … Read more
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