Confidence In Your Server
Our driving force is our passion for databases, technology, and particularly Microsoft SQL Server. In our travels throughout many firms we have heard and seen first hand the problems that exist in regard to server monitoring, best practice implementation, configuration, and health checks. Very few firms maintain their SQL Servers adequately as correct configuration requires a deep knowledge of the product to determine when or why best practices should be used and the impact these choices can have on your server's performance.
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We are all too aware that there are numerous software offerings out in the wild which can monitor every aspect of your SQL Server and beyond, providing live updates and seemingly endless drilldowns. We are also aware that in nearly all establishments we have worked throughout our careers one of these products is invariably installed and running. However, only a handful of times have we ever seen these products actually used. Generally the responses we hear when questioned are "it's too complicated", "we just run defaults", "we don't know how to look at X or what it means" or "it slows down our server". For this reason we decided to head down a different track. We run very specific and limited queries, pulling only critical information about your server that enables us to then personally analyse your server's performance and provide you with only the information you require, in plain English, and with comments (and usually also implementation code) that you can action immediately. Therefore you know you always get what you pay for.