Mike Walsh, Author at SQL Server Consulting - Straight Path Solutions

Welcome Daniel Maenle & A few SPers will be at PASS Next Week

by Mike Walsh | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized

I’ve slacked off a little bit on letting folks know when the team grows! I just realized the last post was when we welcomed Tara in January. Well we made a few more changes since hiring Tara and I’ve been excited about each one of them (A LOT!) but...

PASS Prayers – Year 11!

by Mike Walsh | Oct 20, 2019 | Bible, PASS

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...

TDE, Instant File Initialization, and Treating the Patient

by Mike Walsh | Oct 14, 2019 | Straight Up SQL Server Tips, Troubleshooting

So maybe you read the post title, and you already have an idea where this post is going… In the heat of the moment, I didn’t. Long story short – we had a client who was having some ugly excessive autogrowths causing a nasty cycle. Their autogrowth...

SQL Saturday 877

by Mike Walsh | Sep 14, 2019 | SQL Saturday

Hey there! Thanks for attending my SQL Saturday Session today! A few links we discussed. If we get into any big conversations, I’ll bring links into here by end of day Monday Download our SQL Server Upgrade Checklist (and open in word and edit it to make it your...

SQL Saturday 845 – Session Details

by Mike Walsh | May 18, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hello! Thanks for attending! The slides for my SQL Saturday Session on High Availability and Disaster Recovery are below. After the session I’ll update this with links and notes from the talk by end of day Tuesday. Thanks for attending! SQL Server High...