Mike WalshMike Walsh

Mike loves mentoring clients on the right Systems or High Availability architectures because he enjoys those lightbulb moments and loves watching the right design and setup come together for a client. He loves the architecture talks about the cloud - and he's enjoying building a Managed SQL Server DBA practice that is growing while maintaining values and culture. He started Straight Path in 2010 when he decided that after over a decade working with SQL Server in various roles, it was time to try and take his experience, passion, and knowledge to help clients of all shapes and sizes. Mike is a husband, and father to four great children and lives in the middle of nowhere NH.

T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

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I last hosted T-SQL Tuesday back in 2010 (T-SQL Tuesday #4 IO), I guess it’s been a minute! This month, let’s get a little reflective/introspective. Call it an end-of-year wrap-up theme. We all have those moments where we look back and think, “I spent a lot of energy worrying about the wrong thing(s)…” After some … Read more

Good, Clean, Fair: It’s Time for a Slow Data Movement

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When you sit down at Rick Bayless’ Topolobampo restaurant, you aren’t rushed into a menu. Instead, you start on a narrated journey. You hear about Chef’s own experience of Mexico. You are told and can read about that journey. As you go on this vicarious journey, it’s brought to life before you with each thoughtfully … Read more

Hyper-V and SQL Server Best Practices: What We Wish You Knew

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If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why does my SQL Server seem slower on Hyper-V than it should be?!”, this post might help. And if you asked me about Hyper-V ten years ago, I’d probably have laughed. Maybe even less than that. But here’s the thing: it scales, it works, and with the Broadcom/VMware “fun” squeezing … Read more

Temptation – When The Cloud Looks Like Heaven (but isn’t…)

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A heaven? A gateway? A hope? Let’s continue the SQL Server Regrets series… The planned next post was about the cloud anyway, my reminder for this post was the really long day a lot of tech folks relying heavily on AWS experienced today… Another cloud-based DNS related outage/wave of interruptions. A heaven….. A hope?- Someone … Read more

SQL Server Backups and the Illusion of Safety: Confusion

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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