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Most of Straight Path’s 18 Team Members are Senior 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.
“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
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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.
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.
Learn MoreSQL Server Blog Posts
From “Keep it Running” to “Make it Valuable”: Why Your SQL Skills Aren’t Enough Anymore
April 10, 2026
You’ve spent a long time learning about tuning indexes, fighting deadlocks, and keeping the green lights on the physical systems and cloud deployments. You’ve got scripts that could shame half the Stack Overflow answers GPT hasn’t scraped. You know the difference between CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER without Googling. But here’s the kicker: your CIO doesn’t care … Read more
SQL Server Case of the Week: A Broken Backup Chain Blocks Migration to Azure SQL Managed Instance
April 10, 2026
A client was preparing to move databases from on-prem to Azure SQL Managed Instance. The backup and restore process was going smoothly, full backup restored, differential restored, first log backup restored, everything lining up. Then the next transaction log restore failed due to a mismatched LSN error. The backup chain was broken. The migration was … Read more
Data Contracts: The Agreement Your Pipeline Has Been Missing
April 9, 2026
“Data quality is not a technical problem. It’s an accountability problem…”
Free SQL Server Health Check with dbatools
April 2, 2026
After a longer break than expected, I am back to the dbatools for SQL Server DBAs blog series, and this one is a monster! In fact, this project is so big that I think it will be better to release it incrementally. This will allow you clone the repository, test and modify it in your … Read more
Updates for all sp_Check tools – March 2026
March 31, 2026
As promised last month, we are planning for (at least) monthly updates of our FREE sp_Check stored procedures, so here are the March updates. This month we did change the “ReadMore” URL links in the results of all tools to not use redirects. This might have been causing issues for folks who just wanted some … Read more