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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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Free SQL Server DBA tool - sp_CheckTempdb

Introducing sp_CheckTempdb: Check Your SQL Server tempdb for Performance Issues

Most database folks might know the tempdb database in SQL Server is used for temporary tables, but many folks don’t realize all the other things that use this critical system database. It’s also used by table variables, cursors, aggregations, joins, and sorts. And by memory spills when you don’t have enough memory. And by integrity … Read more

Getting Organized – The Death of a Task, Man

Almost Done! Not enough focus time that day, I guess.Almost Done! Not enough focus time that day, I guess.

Getting Organized – A Task’s Life

[This is part two in a series of posts about “Getting Organized” using the Evernote toolset.] Getting Organized Series Outline Introduction and License Giveaway A Task’s Life The Death of a Task, Man 451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks The Life of A Task The system I am using has a few stages. The stages … Read more

Getting Organized – Goodbye Paper?

[This is the first in a 4 part series of posts about “Getting Organized” , on track and my use of Evernote.] Getting Organized Series Outline Introduction and License Giveaway A Task’s Life The Death of a Task, Man 451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks Do you struggle with organization? Note taking? Note Finding? I … Read more
sql server mentorship

T-SQL Tuesday – Captains Mentor and Teach

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier on Twitter), and he asked us about learning and teaching. More on the Captain Quote at the bottom. (2021 Edit – I was cleaning up some old posts and just found this one. The lessons here are a whole new set of lessons as … Read more