Skip to content
SQL Server Consulting – Straight Path Solutions
  • Home
  • Services
    • DBA Services
    • Cloud
    • Upgrades
  • About
    • About Us
    • Referral Program
    • Speaking
    • Careers
  • Blog
  • Call: 888-775-3282
  • Contact

ft

Can’t Troubleshoot? Don’t Apply!

July 15, 2016May 16, 2011 by Mike Walsh

If you can’t diagnose a problem and troubleshoot it, you can’t work with me. I interview for that skill.

Categories Professional Development, Syndicate Tags ft, Life Lessons, Professional Development, Troubleshooting 13 Comments

Prof. SQL Server 2008 Internals & Troubleshooting

November 27, 2023October 11, 2010 by Mike Walsh

This book needs to be in your library.
…

Categories Professional Development Tags Best Practices, Book Review, Free Tools, ft, Learning SQL Server, Pet Peeve, sql server 2008, SQL Server Internals and Troubleshooting, Troubleshooting 18 Comments

Why Hire A SQL Server DBA?

March 6, 2021May 24, 2010 by Mike Walsh
sql server dba for hire

Why would anyone hire a DBA? Isn’t SQL Set-It-And-Forget-It?

Categories Best Practices, DBA, Syndicate, Troubleshooting Tags Best Practices, Database Administrator, ft, You Need to hire a DBA 15 Comments

Plan To Fail Or Don’t Expect To Succeed

March 6, 2021May 18, 2010 by Mike Walsh

In this post I’m going to let you in on a secret- You are going to fail. More than once and in more than one way. It’s what you do with the failure that matters.

Categories Professional Development, Syndicate Tags Accidents Happen, ft, Lessons From Life, Plan To Fail, Professional Development 25 Comments

Shrinking is a popular topic…

May 19, 2011January 31, 2009 by Mike Walsh

When I started blogging, my first posts were on shrinking. That’s still a popular search. Why?

Categories DBA, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration, Syndicate Tags ft, Performance, Pet Peeves, Shrinking & Transactions, SQL Server 10 Comments

Archives

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

- Romans 1:16

PO Box 591
Sanbornville NH 03872

888-SQL-DATA (888-775-3282)

help@straightpathsql.com

Services

DBA as a Service
Cloud
Upgrades

Recent Posts

  • Introducing sp_CheckTempdb: Check Your SQL Server tempdb for Performance Issues
  • Why Invoke-DbaQuery Is My Most-Used dbatools Query
  • Bizarre Love Triangle (Sysadmins, AV tools and DBAs)
© 2008-2025 Straight Path Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved.