September 28, 2026
We received our official and final SOC 2 Type I report from Linford & Company, an independent CPA firm, covering our Managed SQL Server Services as of September 15, 2026 today. I’m proud of it. I’m also a little wary of how these announcements usually go, because I’ve read a lot of vendor press releases
September 22, 2026
Whenever you are shopping, you should look at a few options. I sometimes forget that step, and then regret it afterwards a bit too often. It’s really important to do that when it comes to choosing the firm who will be your Remote DBA or DBA as a Service partner. I want to do something
September 15, 2026
In the first 90 days of a healthy DBA as a Service relationship, the provider should have a thorough understanding of your environment, establish reliable access and monitoring, identify and plan for your most serious risks, begin reducing recurring disasters, and settle into a working rhythm with clear priorities and communication. By Day 90 you
September 9, 2026
But we just found out that it was two years in a row. We achieved it for 2026 with our 2026 surveys and I asked about the criteria – we seem to have the required response rate and ratings most years, and they said yeah you’re right. You have it for 2025 and 2026. I
September 8, 2026
We sell DBA as a Service here at Straight Path. Managed DBA services work most of the time, but sometimes it doesn’t, even for our clients. Remote DBA services can go wrong because the provider fails, because the client makes it difficult for the service model to work, or because neither side clearly defined the
September 3, 2026
Not every company that needs us for SQL Server consulting needs a full Remote DBA team with our managed DBA as a Service offering. Sometimes just buying a bucket of hours makes more sense. If you already have your SQL Server operations in-hand (good monitoring, a team that responds appropriately, after hours support, and you
August 31, 2026
I could build you a calculator right now that proves we are always the cheaper choice... Here is how I would do it. I would go find the highest DBA salary survey I could get my hands on, one of the ones that samples a couple dozen people in expensive metros and reports it as
August 24, 2026
Officially – we publish our DBA as a Service pricing because we’d rather you know what this costs and how it works before we ever get on a sales call. Unofficially? I put the pricing up there because I HATE looking for a service and seeing “contact us for pricing.” I know what’s coming next,
August 20, 2026
Notes From The Session: Download the slide show from today’s session: 20260916 Are Your SQL Servers Actually Secure Most Recent SQL Server Updates at Microsoft’s site. Get sp_CheckSecurity from our github. Read more about sp_CheckSecurity here. This one is really designed for the accidental DBAs, the IT leaders and the folks who deal with SQL
August 18, 2026
We inherit a lot of SQL Server environments. And a thing that happens more often than I’d like is that we find a completed SQL Server health check sitting in the environment already. A pretty darn good one, too. The findings are right, the recommendations make sense, and a lot of the time we know
