Performance Optimization

Faster Databases

Databases slowing you down? Queries timing out? Costs sky-rocketing? Our specialists quickly identify root causes, provide solutions, and allow you to get back to business.

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Don't let databases slow you down

In today's fast moving world, data interactions must be instant.
We help you keep your database systems available, scalable, secure and agile.

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Tools

MyDBA's data driven, evidence based approach in root cause analysis and solution design is supported by SQLBench, our monitoring, telemetry and alerting platform.
Read more about SQLBench here.

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Expertise

Our engineering team bring decades of experience to root cause analysis and solution design, spanning all versions, features and options available in the Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform. .

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Values

MyDBA delivers more than just technical support - we build trusted partnerships. We are committed to quality, transparency & integrity, ensuring your database receives the 24/7 care and attention it deserves.

Root Cause Solutions

Solving database performance problems and maintaining high levels of efficiency requires experienced & specialised skills, backed by monitoring, operational process and readiness.

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Query tuning is the heart and soul of database performance tuning. Queries perform well or poorly based on their coded design, index paths, parameter values, concurrent acquisition of locks, availability of compute resources, and other factors. Understanding how to interpret and leverage these concepts, and when to use each technique to maximum effect is critical to achieving optimal performance outcomes.

Database queries and transactions depend heavily on well designed indexes to provide efficient access to data, and to achieve great overall database performance. Absence of well designed indexes leads to large scale performance problems such as table scanning, intra-query blocking, deadlocking and systems outages. Designing efficient indexes is a key skill, requiring thorough understanding of the query optimisation process, and is central in our approach to database optimisation.

Database designs, query code, indexes and partitions often live for many years, quietly performing their tasks until data volumes grow to a size where performance suddenly changes, requiring refactoring to maintain high levels of performance. Some databases are harder to change than others, bespoke systems often allowing much greater degree of change than vendor / packaged databases. Understanding how & when to make databases changes is equally a technical skill and a team skill, requiring collaboration with developers, vendors, modellers and other key stake-holders.

Selecting ideal infrastructure to achieve high levels of database performance involves understanding increasingly diverse options available from cloud services, and on-premise equipment manufacturers. An inherent trade-off between cost and performance permeates all levels of infrastructure decision, influenced by compute costs, licensing costs, and other operational costs. Impacts from these decisions are felt long term both in performance levels or budgets, so making balanced decisions is essential to achieve both objectives.

Achieving high levels of performance is one thing, maintaining it is another. As databases grow in size and usage over time, maintaining high performance levels requires excellent operational processes including goal setting, monitoring, maintenance, testing and patching. MyDBA offers turn-key service solutions which help you maintain performance, and we stay on the journey with you indefinitely.

MyDBA has been an essential part of our team for many years, helping us to keep our platform running smoothly while we focus on innovating and customer service. CTO, Fintech, US.

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Engagement Options

We offer two engagement options for our Cost Optimization service. You can choose between simple "Time & Materials" (daily rate) or "Savings Share" options. In our "Savings Share" engagement model, we charge you a percentage of the differential between your current costs and the costs saved from our engagement.

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Savings Share

With this approach MyDBA shares the risk of the project and ensures a clear ROI for the client. After initially quantifying your existing costs and making recommendations to reduce costs, we charge a percentage of the savings. In other words, we only earn if you save.

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Service Level Agreement

If you enter a Service Level Agreement for database support services, cost optimization is included as a standard service along with monitoring and regular review.

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Time & Materials

Traditional Time & Materials engagements are also offered and may be more appealing if it seems apparent to you that a large savings in cost is likely to be achieved.

Serving All Industries

Our expert technical team's experience has been gained through many years of hand on work in a wide variety of industries globally. Here are a few examples.

Startups

Startups are obsessively agile, with fast paced deployment of change and extremely high levels of scalability and performance a necessity for survival. These objectives are sometimes contradictory but MyDBA's expert technical team have helped many startups achieve their dreams.

Education

Many learning management systems, knowledge bases, enrolement platforms and other educational service solutions are built on Microsoft SQL Server. We help our educational sector clients focus on teaching while we keep their database platforms out of detention.

Government

Governments need security, stability, and high performance from the database systems that support public infrastructure. Our expert team of database professionals help governments realise these challenging objectives with the Microsoft SQL Server database platform.