Microsoft SQL Server Database Services

A structured review of your SQL Server instances that tells you where you stand.

• Configuration review: instance, database and tempdb settings against recommended practice.
• Performance baseline: waits, resource usage and the heaviest queries.
• Risk findings: backups, security, unsupported versions and single points of failure.
• Prioritised report: clear recommendations with effort and impact.

• New builds: SQL Server installed and configured on physical servers, virtual machines or the cloud.
• Version upgrades: in-place or side-by-side upgrades from older releases, with compatibility testing.
• Migrations: moving databases between servers, data centres or to cloud virtual machines with minimal downtime.
• Consolidation: reducing licence and hardware costs by combining instances where it is safe to do so.

• Backups: full, differential and transaction-log backups with regular restore tests.
• Integrity and maintenance: DBCC CHECKDB, index and statistics maintenance, and SQL Server Agent jobs.
• Monitoring and alerting: availability, job failures, blocking, disk space and growth.
• Patching: cumulative updates and security fixes applied on a planned schedule.

• Query tuning: execution plans, Query Store and missing or duplicate indexes.
• Blocking and deadlocks: root-cause analysis and fixes.
• Server tuning: memory, parallelism and tempdb configuration.
• Capacity planning: keeping ahead of data growth and workload changes.

• Always On availability groups: for high availability and readable secondaries.
• Failover cluster instances: instance-level protection on shared storage.
• Log shipping: simple, reliable disaster-recovery copies.
• Recovery planning: documented and tested procedures against agreed recovery targets.

• Access control: logins, roles and least-privilege permissions.
• Encryption: Transparent Data Encryption, encrypted backups and encrypted connections.
• Auditing: SQL Server Audit for sensitive activity.
• Hardening: surface-area reduction and regular security reviews.

Begin with a SQL Server health check, move to ongoing administration and support, or bring in an engineering pod for an upgrade or migration. See our pricing or contact us to discuss your environment.