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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.
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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
SQL Server Case of the Week: Databases in a “Recovery Pending” state don’t always require surgery
March 27, 2026
You get an alert that there are one or more databases in a “Recovery Pending” state. This means the database started but could not complete the recovery pending process for some unknown reason. It is stuck in this state and unusable until recovery can be completed. The Investigation After receiving the alert, I verified that … Read more
Data Literacy is a Strategic Opportunity
March 26, 2026
Every year, organizations spend money on data platforms, business intelligence tooling, and analytics subscriptions. The decision to start these projects get executive sponsorship. The implementation gets a project manager. The launch gets a company-wide email with a lot of enthusiasm and a screenshot of the new dashboard. Then, six months later, the same leadership team … Read more
Before You Hire a Head of AI
March 20, 2026
I’ve told this story before, but it keeps applying to new things, so here we go again. A few years ago, we built a duplex. In-laws moving into the downstairs units, my office going upstairs. About a month out from moving in, I called the cable company to get service set up. Figured a couple … Read more
