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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.

We Sell Green Checkmarks

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

My PASS Summit Schedule – Pass Prayer Update

Howdy – Quick Post. I wanted to let folks know more about the times for the PASS Prayer post I wrote last week and then just talk about where I’ll be. There are a LOT of people I want to say hello to that I’ve met last year or at a SQL Saturday. There are … Read more

I’m Mike Walsh and I’m Asking For Your Vote

Alright. So Grant Fritchey did it first. And if he can do then I suppose I can also 😉 (I actually agree with him and think you should vote for Grant and Gail in their respective categories). Actually, I think there are a lot of good candidates out there, including some excellent new bloggers (either … Read more

PASS Summit – Early Morning Prayer

Quick Note – As I recently posted, I am switching roles and beginning work for a consulting company. Part of that role will include my time blogging and sharing some of those posts on a blog site they host or linking back to their company. One of my first orders of business will be the … Read more

The New Adventures of Mike Walsh

Leaving So Soon? I just started the job I am at about 4 months ago. I love it. I really do – I’d probably tell you if I didn’t (some times I need to work on my filter). This is the first company I’ve worked at without a thick air of politics and clawing for … Read more