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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
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.
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
SQL Server 2016 – the Final Countdown: What End of Support Means and Why You Should Care
June 3, 2026
Many of us have been working with SQL Server long enough to remember when SQL Server 2016 was shiny and new. It’s unquestionably a milestone of a version with Query Store being introduced, availability groups finally working, lots of features eventually added to Standard Edition, and more. But now it is old enough that Microsoft … Read more
SQL Server: Database or Data Platform?
May 29, 2026
I’ve been working with technology for a very long time. Long enough that I have seen the words “data base” mean exactly that: a base body of data. The term implied no specific format, no particular layout, or even an engine to process it. Just raw data used for a given storage of information. Just … Read more
SQL Server Log File Full at 2 TB Max with CDC: How We Recovered
May 15, 2026
Quick summary For several versions of SQL Server, the maximum log file size was noted at 2 TB. If you ever reach that limit you could find yourself in a Disaster Recovery scenario. Context We received an emergency call from a client that noted that their SQL Server instances was unresponsive. (This was an Amazon … Read more
Updates for all sp_Check tools – April 2026
April 30, 2026
It’s time again for our monthly updates of our FREE sp_Check stored procedures, so here are the April updates. This month we have way more updates than in March, including recommendations from the Issues section of GitHub, so thank you to all who contributed! We also have been working on the content pages referenced by … Read more
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