What we advise on
The decisions that cost the most.
Which platform fits the workload
We support SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL, so the advice is about the workload rather than the licence. That includes the harder version of the question: whether a workload should stay where it is.
- Platform choice judged per workload
- Migration feasibility, not just migration cost
- Vendor-neutral, because we support all three
Whether the estate is actually healthy
An independent assessment of configuration, capacity, security and resilience, ending in a prioritised list of what to fix first rather than a list of everything that could be improved.
- Versions, patch position and support status
- Backups tested by restoring them
- Capacity and growth against real usage
Why performance degrades
Query, index and configuration tuning to remove bottlenecks and stabilise performance. Most slow databases are not mysterious; they are the result of maintenance that quietly stopped happening.
- Execution plans, blocking and wait analysis
- Indexing strategy reviewed against the workload
- Configuration checked rather than left at defaults
What happens when it fails
High availability and disaster recovery designed around two numbers the business agrees first: how long you could be without the database, and how much data you could afford to lose.
- Recovery objectives agreed before any design
- Replication and failover exercised deliberately
- The gap between backup and recovery made explicit
How we work
Advice you can check.
Consulting is worth paying for when it produces a decision you can defend. Ours starts from evidence in your environment rather than a general recommendation: what the estate is running, what it is doing under load, and what would happen if it stopped. The output is a prioritised list with the reasoning attached, so you can act on it with your own team if that is the right answer.
We support SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL, and we do not resell licences or hardware. That matters when the honest recommendation is to stay on the platform you already have. If you would rather we did the work as well as advised on it, that is our managed database services.
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