Our SQL Services in Christchurch
From licensing audits to migrations and performance work — the things Christchurch teams bring in a specialist for.
Managed SQL Server
We watch the estate, keep the backups restore-tested, and rehearse the recovery, so the problem is caught before it becomes an outage. Delivered remotely to Christchurch.
Licensing audit
Most estates are over-licensed. Across the ones we audit, 20 to 40% of the SQL bill usually turns out to be recoverable. Read-only, no production impact.
SQL consulting
Migrations, version upgrades and cloud moves — scoped to your downtime, tested on a copy, and cut over in a window you control, delivered over secure remote access.
Performance tuning
Slow databases cost time and money. We read the wait stats, find the few queries doing the damage, fix the cause, and show you the before and after.
Virtual DBA
A senior DBA on call without a full-time hire: monitoring, troubleshooting, and the hard-problem escalations that need real depth — delivered to Canterbury remotely.
Frequently asked questions
Do we lose anything by working with a remote DBA?
No. We connect over secure access to your estate, so a slow query or a failed backup in Christchurch gets the same senior attention it would anywhere. You deal with the person fixing it, not a ticket queue, and most jobs never need anyone on a plane.
How much can you take off our SQL Server licensing?
Usually 20 to 40% of the bill. Most estates are running Enterprise editions on workloads that never touch an Enterprise feature, or carrying idle instances that still draw licences. The audit is read-only, with no production impact, and it usually pays for itself on the first finding.
Can you prove our backups actually restore?
Yes, and it is the first thing we check. A backup nobody has restored is a folder, not a safety net. We confirm the restore works, time it against your recovery objective, and make sure the recovery copy is somewhere a single failure cannot take with it.
Our application is slow. What do you actually do?
We read the wait stats, find the few queries and settings causing the pain, fix the cause, and show you the before and after. Most slow SQL Server is a handful of fixable problems, not a mystery.
Can you move us to Azure — or back?
Yes. On-prem to Azure VM, Managed Instance or Azure SQL, and repatriation to your own hardware when the cloud bill stops making sense. We test the move on a copy and cut over in a window you control, with a rollback ready.
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. The free health check is read-only, and the findings come back in plain English.