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Expert SQL Server Consulting

Straight Path’s 17 FTEs are SQL Server consultants – many with 20-30 years of experience. Offering Microsoft SQL Server database troubleshooting, monitoring and maintenance, migrations, and upgrades from small businesses to large enterprises. SQL Server consulting is our full-time job – this isn’t a side gig or a one-person show.

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Our consultants are SQL Server experts who can solve your SQL Server problems and keep them from coming back.

“Database management has never been this easy. The Straight Path team is full of SQL Server database gurus who can help you speed it up, sort it out or set it up right. Client satisfaction has increased because problems are solved and workflows are positively impacted. As a result, I am sleeping like a baby knowing our databases are being watched and managed diligently by our SQL Server consulting team. I don’t know what we’d do without them.”

Dean Tammam, Red Key Solutions

SQL Server Consulting Services

DBA as a Service

Remote, senior DBAs and SQL Server consultants are on your team, not your payroll. 15-minute P1 SLA. Priced per hour, not by instance.

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Cloud

We can plan and execute your move to the cloud. We can optimize your costs.

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Upgrades

Expert, painless, set-it-and-forget-it SQL Server upgrades.

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sp_check – Free SQL Server Resources

Our SQL Server consultants have developed a set of community tools that help keep your SQL Server secure and healthy. They’re free, easy to use, and ungated. We use them in our own consulting engagements – you can use them also.

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Your Silent Face: The Illusion of the Safety of “Never Patching” Your SQL Servers.

No hearing, or breathing… No movement, no colors… Just silence… Sounds peaceful. Sounds serene. And in a world where entropy didn’t exist, it could even stay that way. That’s not our world, though. Our SQL Servers (in whatever flavor they exist) don’t live in utopia. They live in a world where bad actors are trying … Read more
The Key to Relativity SQL Server Performance

Relativity SQL Server – What I Wish You Know

We’ve been working with Relativity for at least 4 or 5 years now here at Straight Path. Helping clients with their Relativity SQL Server environments. Helping folks get the most performance out of their Relativity SQL Servers.  Running our SQL Server Health Checks for many firms. From small firms to a few on the AmLaw … Read more
How to Choose a SQL Server Health Check

How to Choose a SQL Server Health Check

You already know how important it is to perform a SQL Server health check. That’s why you’re reading this. The question isn’t whether to do one but, “How?” In this article, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of the following options: Roll your own Download free scripts Pay someone Option 1: Roll Your Own SQL … Read more

Azure SQL DB: A Guided Tour at MS Ignite

Hey! Thanks for coming to my community theater session today at 4:05 (Don’t worry, I’m posting this ahead of time, if you’re seeing this, you haven’t missed the session) about Azure SQL DB!! I told you I’d throw a quick post up with some resources, next steps and thoughts. So here it is! 20 minutes … Read more

New Video: PASS Summit Networking with Tim Mitchell

What are you doing at the end of October this year? Nothing?! It’s not too late to sign up to go to the biggest annual SQL Server conference there is – the PASS Summit. It’s, as it often is, in Seattle this year. I’ll be speaking there – giving a talk on Azure SQL Databases. … Read more