DatabaseSkills provide help to address the following customer issues:

• Is your DBA team overworked?
• Could you benefit from a "consultant DBA" to augment your DBA team?
• Do you need a dedicated DBA who works with your DBA team on a weekly schedule?
• Do you need a dedicated DBA who intimately understands your business, architecture, and database infrastructure?
• Do you need a Certified DBA with direct channel access into SQLServer / MySQL Support?
• Do you want access to SQL Server / MySQL database expertise?
• Do you need a cost-effective DBA solution?

DatabaseSkills use proven methodologies and expertise in database administration, security, performance tuning, replication, backup, and fault-tolerance in providing this service. DatabaseSkills will work closely with customers to offer the following services [full detail on Services]:

• Analyze their current database infrastructure
• Analyze their database requirements
• Identify potential issues and limitations
• Diagnose issues in complex application architectures
• Improve database infrastructure, architecture, and design
• Install, configure and administer SQLServer / MySQL
• Apply the latest SQLServer / MySQL patches and version upgrades
• Schedule backup & recovery
• Set-up and manage replication
• Help secure their database environments
• Benchmark, load test, and optimize critical SQL queries
• Help proactively manage performance and capacity planning
• Implement best practices and recommend tools for managing their database infrastructures

Scope of Work

• Covers all DBA functions

Deliverables

• Design, installation, configuration, and administration of customers' SQLServer / MySQL databases

Benefits

• Improved reliability, security and performance
• Help minimize project risk through better assessment of effort and project scope
• Knowledge transfer and skills development for SQLServer / MySQL DBA
• Learn administration best practices