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!

Introducing Straight Up SQL Server Tips

February 7, 2020January 16, 2017 by Mike Walsh

An Introduction and a Why. . . I’ve been blogging about SQL Server since 2009. Over the years I’ve blogged about many topics and levels. For some reason, I’ve most loved writing the posts to beginner and intermediate levels though. Things that trip folks up day to day, etc. While I’ve been an independent consultant … Read more

Are Power Saving Settings Killing Your SQL Server Performance? [Quick Tip]

June 22, 2022December 28, 2016 by Mike Walsh

At Straight Path Solutions, we love performing SQL Server Health Assessments. These are our exams that dig quickly into the root of your SQL Server instance and find problems that you are currently suffering from. Then we give you an action plan to stop suffering from them today. Rather than just performing the checks and finding the … Read more

Check SQL Server Configuration – Free Script

March 10, 2022November 25, 2016 by Mike Walsh

I do a lot of SQL Server Health Assessments on SQL Server environments. I’m always checking sys.configurations to look for problematic instance level configuration settings. I almost always find configurations worth changing. But the approach I’ve always used is a bit manual and I wanted to fix it. So I finally wrote a script to … Read more

Remote DBA Benefits – After Hours Support

February 7, 2020November 23, 2016 by Mike Walsh

2016 has proven to be a busy year for Straight Path! We launched our DBA On Demand Service. This is a Senior level Remote DBA offering – the basic premise being “what if you had access to world class Senior level talent, and paid for only what you needed from them?”. We’ve on boarded several … Read more

SQL Server 2016 Standard – Your Cake. You Can Eat it too.

February 7, 2020November 16, 2016 by Mike Walsh

SQL Server Standard with Enterprise Features - Your cake. Eat it too.

Today Microsoft just made a huge announcement. All of the features you can build into your databases in SQL Server (well the vast majority at least) are no longer just included in Enterprise Editions. There are some exceptions… But the main point here is – you can be on SQL Server Standard – and you can use … Read more

We’re (officially) Working with Tyleris Data Solutions

February 7, 2020October 24, 2016 by Mike Walsh

As my friend and fellow SQL Server MVP, Tim Mitchell pointed out in a blog post today – our companies are working together in a strategic way. Our clients should benefit from this relationship in a few ways. I wanted to chat about that here and why I’m excited about it. We’ve actually been working … Read more

PASS Summit – PASS Prayers – 8th Year

October 24, 2016 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 – but sometimes it makes sense for a quick cross post over here. I always tag those posts with the Bible category and you are free to read or ignore … Read more