Databases fail quietly until the day they fail loudly. We run yours — patching, high availability, backups that have actually been restored, and the performance tuning nobody has had time for.
Most teams do not need a full-time database administrator — they need one for a few days a month, plus someone reachable at three in the morning.
Day-to-day administration, capacity monitoring, housekeeping jobs and health checks across SQL and NoSQL engines, with alerting that reaches a human.
Replication, clustering, failover and standby configurations — Data Guard, Always On, streaming replication — with recovery objectives that are written down and tested.
Backup schedules matched to how much data you can afford to lose, and — the part most teams skip — regular restore tests, because an untested backup is a rumour.
Query plans, indexing, partitioning, memory and storage configuration. Usually the cheapest performance work available, and usually the last anyone gets to.
Version upgrades and security patching with a tested rollback, plus migrations between engines, versions or clouds — including to managed services such as Amazon RDS.
Encryption at rest and in transit, role and privilege review, auditing, and separating who can read production data from who can change it.
Monitoring and on-call cover, so a disk filling up or a replica falling behind is handled before it becomes an outage.
Senior database expertise for the few days a month you actually need it, instead of a full-time hire you cannot keep busy or replace.
We test restores on a schedule and show you the result. Nobody should discover their backup strategy during an incident.
Tuning often removes the need for the bigger instance someone was about to buy.
We review configuration, performance, backups, security and patch level, and give you a prioritised list of what is actually at risk.
Missing backups, unpatched versions, single points of failure — whatever would hurt most, first.
Monitoring, alerting, documented runbooks, and restore tests on a schedule.
Query and index work, capacity planning, and right-sizing the instances underneath.
Routine administration, patching and on-call, with a report you can read each month.
Yes — commonly for on-call cover, holiday cover, a second opinion on a migration, or an engine your DBA does not specialise in.
Yours. We work inside accounts you own and can revoke at any time, which also means the data never moves anywhere you did not put it.
Yes. Managed services remove a lot of routine administration, though they do not remove the need for tuning, access control or a tested recovery plan.
We will flag licensing implications of an architecture — particularly around cores, options and virtualisation — but licence negotiation is between you and Oracle, and you should get it in writing.
Yes, and it is a sensible way to start. The health check stands on its own, and you decide afterwards whether you want ongoing cover.
A first conversation is free and there is no commitment. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Contact usHow we protect your code, data and systems — NDAs, IP ownership and access control.
Security & ComplianceConfiguration, performance, backups, security and patch level reviewed, with a prioritised list of what is actually at risk. No ongoing commitment required.
