Mike 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 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, father to four great children, and a Christian. He’s a volunteer Firefighter and EMT in his small town in New Hampshire, and when he isn’t playing with his family, solving SQL Server issues, or talking shop, it seems like he has plenty to do with his family running a small farm in NH raising Beef Cattle, Chickens, Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Honeybees and who knows what other animals have been added!

… And it got me thinking

February 7, 2020March 4, 2018 by Mike Walsh

I’m sitting in my hotel room at my something’th MVP Summit, a little jet-lagged, missing my family and my church family on a day we normally would be Worshipping. It’s been a full weekend already. I got to visit with one good friend for dinner last night. Before that, I was at the funeral of another … Read more

Azure SQL – It’s already in there already: Security

February 7, 2020February 24, 2018 by Mike Walsh

I’m not saying you have to be in the cloud. I’m not saying you have to be on premises, either. In fact, I’m more saying “you need to be where it’s right for you and your environment.” Some of my clients make sense to stay on-prem. Some should be in the cloud – yesterday. Still … Read more

I Want YOU to Submit to speak at the PASS Summit

February 7, 2020January 25, 2018 by Mike Walsh

Hey Everyone! Quick blog post. PASS HQ sent an e-mail to some of us past PASS Speakers asking us to share our thoughts on what we had to gain from speaking at the Summit. They asked for a video or blog post. I figured I’d do both. I love encouraging people to speak or blog … Read more

Straight Path Solutions Welcomes Jack Corbett!

November 27, 2023December 5, 2017 by Mike Walsh

Hey there, Dear Readers! I hope you are well. Thanks for coming by and reading this post. If you’re my mom, you’ve been reading this blog of mine since the start back in 2008 or thereabouts. If you aren’t mom, maybe you know a little of the history of Straight Path. Maybe you don’t. Let’s … Read more

PASS Prayers at the PASS Summit – Year Number 9

October 27, 2017 by Mike Walsh

Quick note: From time to time I blog about the Bible here. I try to keep those posts on my personal blog – Open Mike (it’s been too long since I’ve posted over there!!)– but sometimes it makes sense for a quick cross-post over here. I always tag those posts with the Bible category and you … Read more

Relativity & SQL Server – A Free Built-In Health Check

February 25, 2021October 26, 2017 by Mike Walsh

I’m on the return home from Relativity Fest. This post has been in a few draft forms for a long time now but in the session that Jared, Carlo and I gave, and a couple of the questions we ended up hearing put the fire back into finishing my thoughts here and clicking publish. In … Read more

Relativity, SQL Server, and some Links

February 7, 2020October 23, 2017 by Mike Walsh

We are happy to be sponsoring Relativity Fest again this year. It’s my 4th Relativity Fest, I believe. I’ll also be speaking alongside a couple of Relativians (or whatever they should be called post name change. I used to say kCurians) from the support and kIE team on managing huge case workloads. I wanted to throw … Read more