We Sell Green Checkmarks

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.

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 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.

Read More

Cloud

We can plan and execute your move to the cloud. We can optimize your costs.

Read More

Upgrades

Expert, painless, set-it-and-forget-it SQL Server upgrades.

Read More

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.

Learn More

SQL Server Backups and the Illusion of Safety: Confusion

With the recent data center fire and missing government data in South Korea, it felt like a good time to continue with the SQL Server Regrets series of blog posts. We’ll talk about the confusion of thinking you are covered for recoverability – when you just aren’t. This “Regret” comes up far too often when … Read more

I Grew Up Before My Very Eyes

I am stealing this topic from two sources. One is a tweet I just saw from Jose Chinchilla (@SQLJoe on twitter) where he announced “Blog post coming soon: “2000-2010 a Decade in Retrospect” Milestones in my personal life and career: A wife, 2 daughters, #SQL and Twitter.” The other is an idea that Janice Lee … Read more

Where Do I Want To Go?

My last post was a summary of positive highlights from 2010. I’ve been thinking a lot on where I want to be, how I want to be living and what life is all about. Because of those rambling thoughts, I am going to summarize themes I want to live by. You could call them resolutions … Read more

Where I’ve Been – 2010 Wrap Up

This was a good year in a lot of ways both personally, professionally and with spiritual growth. I still have far to go and plenty of goals to whip together for 2011 but a quick rundown of where I’ve been. These thoughts are my own, and don’t speak for my employer. the next post will … Read more

Prepare For the Disaster Before The Disaster

Kind of like some previous common sense posts inspired by mundane tasks (Day Job Tips learned from the garden, a dump trip, etc.), I was hit with another blog thought today. This goes well with my post – Plan To Fail or Don’t Expect To Succeed. Updated: Added a sound piece of advice in the … Read more
Previous 1…7071727374…104 Next