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 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.

Unrelated Relationship Ramblings

November 27, 2023February 9, 2010 by Mike Walsh

It’s Tuesday somewhere when this post goes up. In fact when this goes live it will be sometime around Tuesday afternoon or evening in Adelaide Australia. Why there? This month’s “T-SQL Tuesday” is being hosted by Rob Farley over at his place. His topic is “relationships”. He talks about the history of T-SQL Tuesday over … Read more

SQL Saturday, Seacoast SQL and January

March 6, 2010February 1, 2010 by Mike Walsh

Where does the time go?! January was an incredibly busy month with the day job, home, a battle with the flu and the wrap up of the holidays. It went felt like it took a week to go by but some good news came in January as well. This first week in February, I hope … Read more

StraightPath Solutions – A Year in Review

February 25, 2021December 28, 2009 by Mike Walsh

As we approach the end of 2009, I want to give myself a review on where I have been, what I have done and where I can grow next year from a SQL Server consultant point of view. Part Time – Enough Time For Fun As I have posted before and explain on the about … Read more

For Unto Us a Child Is Born

December 21, 2009 by Mike Walsh

Merry Christmas! StraightPath Solutions wishes you and your family a blessed Christmas season and a safe New Years celebration. I won’t have any other posts this week and will have a couple end of year wrap up posts next week, back to regular posting in January. I hope you enjoy the joy that this season … Read more

Got SQL Server Questions?

December 18, 2009 by Mike Walsh

A Great Idea – #SQLHelp hashtag on Twitter I was following a conversation today between Brent Ozar, who is @BrentO on twitter and Aaron Nelson, who is @SQLVariant on twitter. A great idea was discussed: A twitter hashtag that, as Jorge Segarra (or @SQLChicken on twitter) describes it in his blog post, can act like … Read more

Blogging Tips Interview With Brent Ozar

April 15, 2011December 17, 2009 by Mike Walsh

Welcome to the final post in my series on metablogging topics. We started with a post on my site called “Why Should I Blog?“, which went live the same time as the first part of the below video interview with Brent Ozar. That first video interview went live on Brent Ozar’s Blog.The text series finished … Read more

How Should I Blog?

December 17, 2009December 16, 2009 by Mike Walsh

Welcome to Part 2 of our walk through some “metablogging” topics. In the first part (Why Should I Blog?, we covered some of the basics from my experience with a year of blogging done. The main goal was to encourage you to share in a blog if it’s something you have been considering. Part 0 … Read more