You don't need a full-time DBA.
You need the right one.
Expert SQL Server consultancy and support, from one day a month to several days a week. Whatever your estate actually needs.
Led by the first-ever recipient of the SQLSkills Blackbelt, SQLSkills' highest certification.
What We Do
Results We've Delivered
Real engagements, real numbers. The clients are anonymised; the results aren't.
The processes nobody else could fix
Critical processes had a hard one-minute ceiling and were taking over ten. Internal teams and an external consultancy had already tried. With filtered indexes and careful refactoring, we had them running in two seconds. The work took an afternoon.
Re-architecting a 16-hour import
A 16-hour XML import kept a cloud processing estate running, and billing, all day. We rebuilt the load path with large-scale partitioning, removed the target-table hotspots, and used slim pass-through heaps to unlock massive parallelism. Throughput reached 2.5 billion rows an hour, and the cloud bill shrank with it.
The overnight job that stopped finishing
A pseudonymisation process protecting customer data in test environments had grown from nine hours to never completing at all. Every failed run left real customer data at risk of being visible where it shouldn't be. We worked through all fifty steps, rewrote the joins at fault, and brought it home in 2.5 hours.
Why Human Expertise Still Matters
AI can suggest an index change for a single query. An experienced DBA understands that adding that index may degrade ten others.
Database performance is never about one query in isolation. It's about understanding the entire estate: how workloads interact, how business context shapes decisions, and how to guide the optimiser with data rather than fragile hints that break when circumstances change.
That holistic, experience-driven approach is exactly what AI tools cannot replicate. We work alongside modern tooling, filling the gaps that automation leaves behind.
Deep Internals Knowledge
Trained to the highest level by the SQL Server community's foremost authorities. We know the engine inside out.
Estate-Wide Thinking
We consider the full impact across your entire database environment, not just individual queries.
Safe, Long-Term Approaches
Solutions built on data-driven optimiser guidance that stand the test of time.
The Two Objections We Hear Most
"We already have DBAs."
Good. So did most of our clients. In-house DBAs keep the lights on; we handle the deep-dive work that sits beyond the day job: performance forensics, architecture reviews, HA/DR design and testing, and the 2am problems nobody wants to own alone.
"We'll just add hardware."
Hardware hides problems; it doesn't fix them. And it hides them expensively. A single day of tuning frequently outperforms a five-figure server upgrade. We'll tell you honestly which one you need.
Technologies We Work With
SQL Server at our core, with real-world experience across the modern data platform.
Ready to Talk?
Whether you need a one-off health check or ongoing support, we'd love to hear about your situation. No hard sell, just a conversation about how we can help.
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