I Restored a SQL Server Database and Became a Sysadmin
August 10, 2026
…on a fully patched SQL Server 2014. And “fully” patched is why I’m writing this post. You know the thriller movies where they keep looking for the creepy stalker type? The phone calls keep coming, the signs of stalking are there, and they do a bunch of digging and through the taps or traps they
Hey Sysadmins & Integrators – Look Before You Jump Into the Next Virtualization Platform
August 5, 2026
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware pushed licensing costs up across the tech sector, forcing IT leaders and MSPs to explore alternative hypervisors. Alternatives like Proxmox, Hyper-V, Nutanix, HPE Morpheus or moving directly to cloud platforms like Azure are rapidly gaining traction as teams rush to eliminate the crazy spend Broadcom is looking for or their
It’s Still Not Your Emergency
August 4, 2026
A message hit our Teams “Lounge” channel where we talk about anything in life, sometimes work. One of our DBAs was worried about a client’s data – some rows that didn’t look the way they should look with a likely data issue, and a growing question about how far back the problem went hit her.
Welcome, Richie (and why we are hiring a Senior Dataveloper)
July 30, 2026
We have a great team at Straight Path already. But there are two hires where a bit of timing, opportunity, and all the right stuff at the right moment happened. Oddly, they both came from the same place. When we added Tara we were just talking about growing and on the fence of “do we
SQL Server 2016 – But still, it’s farewell…
July 20, 2026
This post is part of our series “SQL Server 2016 – The Final Countdown.” Welp, it’s all done. The final countdown came and went… SQL Server 2016 is as dead as the parrot purported to be pining the for the fjords. I mean actually, it’s a bit more like that parrot than you’d imagine. But