SQL Server support across Australia
Specialist SQL Server consultants and DBAs for Australian businesses — delivered remotely, inside your business day. We find the risk and the licensing over-spend hiding in your estate, tell you what it costs, and fix it.
Let’s be straight about it: we’re not down the road in Sydney or Brisbane. We’re in Auckland — and we’ve looked after SQL Server for Australian businesses for years, remotely, without it ever being a problem. New Zealand sits a couple of hours ahead of the east coast, so we’re at our desks while you’re at yours, not answering tickets overnight.
Specialist database work is done over secure access to the estate, not by standing next to the server. That’s true whether the DBA is in your building or across the Tasman. What actually matters is whether the person on your problem has fixed it before — and SQL Server is the whole job here, nothing else.
Why across-the-Tasman beats down-the-road
The three things Australian clients actually care about — and none of them need us in the building.
Same working day
New Zealand runs two to three hours ahead of the east coast. We overlap your whole business day — no overnight ticket that gets looked at tomorrow.
Remote is how DBA work is done
A senior DBA fixes SQL Server the same way from Auckland as from across town: over secure access to the estate. The assessment and most of the work never needed a desk in your building.
A specialist, not a local generalist
Most Australian shops choose between a broad MSP and an expensive one-off consultant. A specialist sits between the two: SQL Server depth that is hard to justify hiring in-house, for as long as the work lasts.
Whatever the Australian estate needs.
Performance tuning, high availability and DR, migrations and upgrades, licensing audits, and ongoing managed cover — the full SQL Server picture, delivered to Australia the same way it’s delivered next door.
SQL Server licensing is global, and so is the over-spend. Most estates we assess are paying for far more than they use, and carrying an unbooked liability an audit turns into a backdated bill. Across the estates we assess, 20 to 40% of the bill usually turns out to be recoverable. The assessment that finds it is read-only, wherever you are.
Frequently asked questions
Are you actually based in Australia?
No — we are New Zealand based, in Auckland, and we serve Australian clients remotely. That is not a workaround; it is how specialist SQL Server work is delivered. We overlap your full business day, and the DBA on your estate has done this across Australian environments before.
Which cities do you cover?
All of them. Because the work runs remotely over secure access, it makes no difference whether your SQL Server lives in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra or Hobart. Wherever the estate is, we can see it and fix it.
Can you ever be on-site?
Occasionally, for the rare job that genuinely needs hands on hardware — but that is unusual. The honest answer is that almost nothing in modern SQL Server work requires someone physically in the room, and pretending otherwise just adds travel to your bill.
Do you understand Australian licensing and compliance?
Yes. Microsoft SQL Server licensing is global, and the over-spend and unbooked-liability traps are the same in Australia as anywhere. We map hardening and evidence to the frameworks your auditors actually ask for, wherever you are.
How does pricing work for Australian clients?
The same basis as everywhere else, quoted and billed in NZD: per-instance for an assessment, per instance per month for managed cover, and a fixed senior day rate for project work. Fixed-price, with no meter on calls, meetings or emails. Typical market rates for this kind of work are in our pricing guide.
How do we reach you from Australia?
Email info@sqldba.org or call +64 4 888 1683 — we are a phone call away, inside your working hours. The free, read-only health check is the simplest way to start: you get a graded report whether or not we ever work together.
Not sure who you need?
Tell us what is going on. A senior DBA reads every message and points you at the right next step, even when that is not us. Email info@sqldba.org or call +64 4 888 1683, inside your working hours.