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Find hidden risks, restore headroom, and cut waste across your SQL Server estate.
Blocking chains, TempDB contention, and uneven failovers often hide behind normal dashboards. Backups pass a quick check but miss your recovery targets. Core counts creep as replicas multiply. Our health check translates metrics and config data into a practical plan that restores headroom and controls cost.
| Phase | Key Actions | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
Discover | Inventory instances, roles, editions, configs, metrics | Estate baseline. |
| Analyze | Find bottlenecks, HA gaps, license exposure. | Risk and optimization matrix. |
| Validate | Test restores and failovers in non-prod. | Evidence for change. |
| Recommend | Prioritized fixes, scripts, rollback notes. | Action plan and timeline. |
| Review | Walk through results, assign owners, next steps. | Agreed roadmap. |
No. Collection is non-intrusive. Changes are proposed, tested in non-prod, and scheduled through your process.
Most environments complete in 1 to 3 weeks based on instance count and the depth of restore testing.
Both. We look at queries, indexes, and parameters, then prioritize actions by impact and effort.
Yes. We examine edition features, core counts, CAL assignments, and rights for passive replicas. We call out risks and savings paths.
Yes. We include platform specifics such as RDS or Azure SQL Managed Instance settings, storage alignment, and cloud cost considerations.
After major change or at least annually to confirm performance targets, recovery objectives, and license posture.