Sandra Delany

Sandra started with Straight Path in April as a Senior SQL Server Consultant. She started her career supporting Local Area Networks, troubleshooting network, hardware and software problems. She decided to take classes learning Oracle and got certified. Around that same time, she had the opportunity to learn SQL Server and stayed with it ever since. She has many many years of SQL Server database experience as an application DBA/developer and production DBA in the private and public sector supporting multiple clients. She has experience with SQL Server 7.0-2019 (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) and Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010. She recently received her Microsoft Certified Professional Cloud Platform certification.

Curious Case of SQL Server Shutting Down Whenever a Job Runs.

October 17, 2025 by Sandra Delany

This is a post in our new Case of the Week series — short write-ups from the real SQL Server issues our team of 17 SQL Server experts helps clients solve every day. Case of the Week: . Quick Summary A client reported that their SQL Server service was “randomly shutting down”. They would restart … Read more

SQL Just Stops When Running OPENROWSET Query

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 by Sandra Delany

Sometimes people install Office onto a SQL Server to get the drivers for the ability to import data from Excel into SQL Server Tables. This should never be done on a production, or any, server because it can cause many other problems for SQL, one of which is the purpose of this blog. For example, … Read more

How to Setup a Standalone SSRS Server As Part of an Availability Group

August 16, 2023August 9, 2023 by Sandra Delany

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a useful tool that can be installed on a standalone server (a license is required), or it can be installed on an existing SQL Server host (this shares the existing license of SQL Server). This blog post covers how SSRS is installed on a standalone server and how to … Read more