Enterprise-grade database administration powered by 25+ years of expertise and AI-enhanced telemetry analysis. All the benefits of an in-house DBA specialist - without the cost of a full-time resource.
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We combine decades of hands-on SQL Server experience with AI-powered telemetry analysis to detect issues faster and deliver actionable intelligence - while never touching your business data.
Our AI models analyse SQL Server telemetry - wait stats, performance counters, query patterns - to identify anomalies before they become outages. Early warnings, not emergency calls.
When an issue arises, AI correlates patterns across performance baselines, recent changes and historical incidents to surface the most likely root cause - reducing diagnosis from hours to minutes.
We translate database telemetry into business intelligence - capacity forecasting, cost optimisation recommendations, and workload trend analysis for your leadership team.
Your data never leaves your environment
AI is a tool that helps us deliver faster, more accurate outcomes for our clients. It does not replace our expertise - every insight is validated by our senior DBAs before action is taken.
From proactive monitoring through to emergency response, on-site or remote - we provide the full spectrum of database administration services.
Ongoing managed SQL Server administration including 24/7 monitoring, incident response, proactive reviews, performance tuning, and on-call DBA support. A natural extension of your in-house IT team.
Agentless, real-time SQL Server monitoring leveraging native capabilities. Automatic triage with critical issues escalated to our 24/7/365 on-call DBAs, non-critical events queued for next business day.
Comprehensive review of your SQL Server infrastructure against industry best practices. Includes a 48-hour performance baseline to identify infrastructure bottlenecks impacting performance.
In-depth analysis of critical performance metrics - top wait conditions, expensive queries, missing indexes, over-indexing, locking conditions and infrastructure bottlenecks at the hardware layer.
Solution design, migrations, consolidations, upgrades and high availability architecture. Available hourly, half-day or full-day. We work with your IT team through a design-first methodology.
Expert guidance on Azure SQL databases, managed instances, elastic pools, SQL VMs and AWS RDS. Migrations, ongoing management, monitoring, security, auto-tuning and cost optimisation.
Design and implementation of HA solutions that mitigate costly service outages. Always-On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping and disaster recovery configurations.
Transparent Data Encryption, security key rotation, PCI-DSS compliance. Auditing, access controls, data classification and security hardening for your SQL Server environment.
Proactive database maintenance including index rebuilds, statistics updates, integrity checks, backup verification, log management, and scheduled patching to keep your SQL Servers running optimally.
Reduce SQL Server sprawl, cut licensing costs, and simplify management. We assess your infrastructure for consolidation opportunities and design the optimal target architecture.
Side-by-side or in-place SQL Server version upgrades with comprehensive pre-upgrade assessment, compatibility testing, and rollback planning. Minimise risk and downtime.
Migrate your on-premises SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Database, Managed Instances, or SQL VMs. End-to-end planning, execution, and post-migration validation.
Whether you need ongoing managed support or ad-hoc project assistance, we have an engagement model that fits. All models include access to the same senior-level SQL Server expertise.
An in-house DBA in Australia costs $130,000–$180,000 in salary alone. Our managed support starts from $999/mo ex-GST (includes up to 3 SQL instances).
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Each unmanaged SQL Server carries roughly a 35% probability of a significant issue per year — misconfigurations, index corruption, disk space, failed backups surfacing at the worst time. The more instances you run without specialist oversight, the higher the probability that at least one will cause a business-impacting event.
If you're running 1–2 SQL Server instances, chances are your entire operation — every application, every user, every transaction — depends on that one system. There's no failover, no redundancy, and no specialist to call at 2am. A single disk failure, corruption event, or misconfiguration could take your entire business offline for hours.
Managed support starts from $999 per month ex-GST (includes up to 3 SQL instances), with support activities captured and billed in 15-minute increments. Most businesses need just a few hours per instance per month. Compare that to 160+ hours per month for a full-time resource.
A full-time DBA takes ~30 days off per year (annual leave + sick leave). That's 6 weeks of uncovered risk. Our managed service provides 24/7 monitoring and on-call response year-round — no coverage gaps, ever.
Even good full-time DBAs rarely run structured health checks — they're too busy fighting fires. Our managed service includes regular proactive reviews specifically designed to catch emerging issues before they impact your business.
Sia and his team have been an invaluable extension to our Managed Services business. Professional conduct and prompt correspondence. Their ongoing support has ensured our database systems are as efficient and reliable as possible.
Sia provided DBA services in support of a major 24x7 business application. Over 4+ years I received excellent service - particularly knowledgeable in monitoring, maintenance and diagnostic work. Helped scale the DB infrastructure to provide best performance.
After 6 months of no success, DBA Services pinpointed a specific index issue. An integration that timed out after 15 minutes completed in less than 10 seconds! They have absolutely surpassed all expectations.
Professional, timely and practical advice in optimizing our web and database servers in Australia and the UK. High quality work that represents great value for money. They have exceeded our expectations.
DBA Services do what they say they will: they look after your SQL databases. They do it in an unfussy way. Bold enough to be decisive but respectful enough to consult you as needs must. A key component of our IT strategy.
Exceptional service on short notice during critical client disaster scenarios. Their in-depth knowledge of MSSQL performance tuning and HA design kept services running while providing recommendations for short and long term improvements.
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