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Database Services

Enterprise Database Services

  • Secure/
  • Optimize/
  • Modernize/
  • Manage

Your databases sit under everything else. When they slow down or go dark, the whole business feels it.

We cover the full lifecycle, from architecture and migration through to 24×7 managed operations.

  • Database Consulting
  • DBA Services
  • Migration
  • Performance Tuning
  • High Availability
  • Cloud Databases
  • Security
  • Managed Services
Enterprise database operations
  • 19

    Capabilities

  • 6

    Platforms

  • 24×7

    Managed DBA

  • L1–L3

    Support Tiers

Our Database Services

Nineteen Capabilities, One Data Platform

Database Consulting

Build the right strategy

We assess what you run today and design what it should become.


Architecture

  • Database architecture
  • Platform assessment
  • Technology selection
  • Capacity planning
  • High-availability architecture

Strategy

  • Database consolidation
  • Database modernization
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Cloud database strategy
  • Database roadmap

Review

  • Security assessment
  • Performance assessment
  • Licensing & infrastructure assessment

Database Administration

Expert DBA support

The daily operational work that keeps mission-critical databases reliable and secure.


Operate

  • Installation & configuration
  • Database upgrades
  • Patching & cumulative updates
  • Configuration management
  • Job & maintenance management

Protect

  • Backup and recovery
  • Database security
  • User & permission management

Support

  • Database monitoring
  • Performance management
  • Capacity management
  • Troubleshooting
  • Incident management
  • Root cause analysis

L1, L2, and L3 database support available depending on your requirements.

SQL Server Services

Microsoft SQL Server

End-to-end services for enterprise SQL Server estates, on-premises through to cloud.


Core

  • Installation
  • Configuration & hardening
  • Version upgrades
  • Database migrations
  • Patching
  • Performance tuning
  • Backup and recovery

High availability

  • Always On Availability Groups
  • Failover Cluster Instances
  • Log Shipping
  • Database Mirroring
  • Replication
  • Disaster recovery

Operations

  • Security & compliance
  • SQL Agent management
  • PowerShell & T-SQL automation
  • Monitoring & alerting

Oracle Database Services

Business-critical Oracle

Support for organizations running Oracle workloads they cannot afford to lose.


Services

  • Installation & configuration
  • Database administration
  • Upgrades
  • Migration
  • Backup and recovery
  • Performance tuning

Resilience

  • High availability
  • Disaster recovery
  • Security
  • Capacity planning
  • Monitoring
  • Automation
  • Cloud migration

PostgreSQL Services

Modern open source

Consulting, administration, migration, and optimization for PostgreSQL estates.


Services

  • Installation & configuration
  • Administration
  • Migration
  • Version upgrades
  • Performance tuning
  • Backup and recovery

Scale

  • Replication
  • High availability
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • Cloud deployment
  • Automation

MySQL Database Services

Scalable and reliable

MySQL environments for enterprise applications and digital platforms.


Services

  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Administration
  • Performance tuning
  • Backup and recovery
  • Version upgrades

Scale

  • Replication
  • High availability
  • Security
  • Database migration
  • Cloud migration
  • Monitoring & support

MongoDB Services

Flexible document data

Design, deployment, migration, and operation of MongoDB environments.


Build

  • MongoDB architecture
  • Installation & configuration
  • Administration
  • Migration
  • Capacity planning

Run

  • Performance optimization
  • Replication
  • High availability
  • Backup and recovery
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • Cloud deployment

Database Migration

Move without disruption

Migration is a planning problem before it is a technical one. Downtime and data integrity drive the plan.


Migration types

  • Version-to-version
  • Platform migrations
  • Data centre migrations
  • Cloud migrations
  • Cross-platform
  • Consolidation
  • Hardware refresh
  • OS migration
  • Modernization

Migration Approach

  • Assess
  • Plan
  • Design
  • Migrate
  • Validate
  • Test
  • Cutover
  • Optimize

Cloud Database Services

Modernize the platform

Migration and ongoing management across the major managed database services.


Azure

  • Azure SQL Database
  • SQL Managed Instance
  • SQL Server on Azure VM
  • Database for PostgreSQL
  • Database for MySQL
  • Cosmos DB

AWS

  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Aurora
  • DynamoDB
  • PostgreSQL on AWS
  • MySQL on AWS
  • SQL Server on AWS

Google Cloud

  • Cloud SQL
  • AlloyDB
  • Spanner
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server workloads

Performance Tuning

Make databases faster

Slow queries surface as slow applications, which customers experience as a slow business.


Query layer

  • Query optimization
  • Execution plan analysis
  • Index optimization
  • Statistics optimization
  • Workload analysis

Resources

  • CPU analysis
  • Memory analysis
  • I/O analysis
  • TempDB optimization
  • Storage optimization
  • Configuration tuning

Contention

  • Blocking analysis
  • Deadlock analysis
  • Wait-statistics analysis
  • Capacity planning

Performance Methodology

  • Monitor
  • Analyze
  • Identify
  • Optimize
  • Validate
  • Improve

High Availability & DR

Keep databases available

Resilient environments designed around the recovery targets your business actually needs.


HA technologies

  • Always On Availability Groups
  • Failover Cluster Instances
  • Log Shipping
  • Database Replication
  • Oracle HA
  • PostgreSQL replication
  • MySQL replication
  • Cloud-native HA

Disaster recovery

  • DR architecture
  • Backup strategy
  • Recovery planning
  • RPO/RTO planning
  • DR implementation
  • DR testing
  • Failover & failback
  • Business continuity

Backup & Recovery

Protect the data

A backup you have never restored is a theory. We test the restore path.


Backup

  • Backup strategy design
  • Full backups
  • Differential backups
  • Transaction log backups
  • Backup retention
  • Off-site backups
  • Cloud backups

Recovery

  • Backup monitoring
  • Backup validation
  • Restore testing
  • Point-in-time recovery
  • Recovery automation

Database Security

Protect and control access

Controls around the data that matters most, from access through to audit.


Access

  • Authentication & authorization
  • Role-based access control
  • Least-privilege implementation
  • Access reviews

Protection

  • Encryption
  • Transparent Data Encryption
  • Encryption in transit
  • Sensitive-data protection
  • Security hardening

Assurance

  • Security assessment
  • Auditing
  • Database activity monitoring
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Compliance support

Database Monitoring

Catch it before the incident

Proactive monitoring that surfaces problems before an application team reports them.


Resources

  • CPU utilization
  • Memory
  • Disk utilization
  • I/O performance
  • Database growth
  • Storage capacity

Health

  • Blocking
  • Deadlocks
  • Long-running queries
  • Failed jobs
  • Backup failures
  • Replication health
  • Always On health
  • Log shipping status

Tooling

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Power BI
  • Azure Monitor
  • CloudWatch
  • Performance Monitor
  • SQL Server tooling

Database Automation

Automate repetitive DBA work

Automation frees your DBAs for the work that actually requires a DBA.


Built with

  • PowerShell automation
  • T-SQL automation
  • Python

Automates

  • Database provisioning
  • Database refresh
  • Backup automation
  • Restore automation
  • Health checks
  • Patch management
  • Job monitoring
  • Compliance checks
  • Capacity reporting
  • Maintenance automation

Database DevOps

Into the delivery pipeline

Schema changes treated with the same rigour as application code.


Pipeline

  • Database CI/CD
  • Automated deployments
  • Release automation
  • Deployment validation
  • Rollback strategies
  • Pipeline integration

Change control

  • Schema management
  • Version control
  • Change management
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automated testing

Database Modernization

Move off legacy

Legacy estates carry operational complexity and licence cost you may no longer need.


Services

  • Database assessment
  • Version upgrades
  • Platform modernization
  • Cloud migration
  • Consolidation
  • Architecture redesign
  • Application decoupling
  • Managed database adoption
  • Automation
  • Performance optimization

Database Consolidation

Reduce complexity

Most organizations run far more instances than they need, each one carrying overhead.


Outcomes

  • Consolidate instances
  • Reduce infrastructure footprint
  • Improve resource utilization
  • Standardize configurations
  • Simplify monitoring
  • Reduce operational overhead
  • Improve security controls

Database Health Check

Know where you stand

A structured assessment of the whole environment, with a prioritized list of what to fix first.


Deliverables

  • Current-state assessment
  • Risk identification
  • Performance findings
  • Configuration findings
  • Security observations
  • Capacity assessment
  • Recommended actions
  • Improvement roadmap

How We Work

Our Database Lifecycle

Nine stages, from first assessment through to ongoing management.

  1. 01Assess
  2. 02Architect
  3. 03Implement
  4. 04Migrate
  5. 05Secure
  6. 06Optimize
  7. 07Automate
  8. 08Monitor
  9. 09Manage

Start Here

Database Health Check

Six dimensions assessed, with a prioritized list of what to fix and in what order.

Performance

CPU, memory, I/O, waits, queries, blocking, and deadlocks.

Availability

High availability, DR, replication, backups, and recovery.

Security

Authentication, permissions, encryption, and auditing.

Configuration

Server and database configuration against best practice.

Capacity

Database growth, storage, memory, and compute requirements.

Operations

Jobs, maintenance, monitoring, and alerting.

Managed Database Services

Your Databases. Our DBA Expertise.

We run the database estate so your internal team can work on the business instead.

  • 24×7 database monitoring
  • Database administration
  • Incident management
  • Problem management
  • Backup management
  • Performance management
  • Patch management
  • Capacity management
  • Security management
  • High availability management
  • Disaster recovery support
  • Database maintenance
  • Monthly health reports
  • SLA reporting

Engagement

Database Support Models

Dedicated DBA

Database professionals working as an extension of your IT team.

Remote DBA

On-demand or scheduled remote database administration.

Managed DBA

End-to-end database operations under defined SLAs.

Project-Based

Specialist expertise for migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and performance work.

24×7 Support

Round-the-clock monitoring for mission-critical environments.

Database Technologies

The Platforms We Run and Support

Relational

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL

NoSQL

  • MongoDB
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Amazon DynamoDB

Cloud Databases

  • Azure SQL
  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Google Cloud SQL
  • AlloyDB

Automation & DevOps

  • PowerShell
  • T-SQL
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions

Why Datadapt

Why Choose Our Database Practice

Enterprise Expertise

Support for complex, business-critical database environments.

Multi-Platform

SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and cloud databases.

Cloud Ready

Migration, modernization, and management across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Performance Focused

Proactive monitoring and optimization rather than reactive firefighting.

Automation Driven

Repetitive DBA work removed through PowerShell, T-SQL, Python, and DevOps.

Security Focused

Access control, encryption, auditing, and governance built in.

Flexible Engagement

Consulting, project work, dedicated DBA, managed services, or 24×7 support.

Industries We Serve

  • Banking & Financial Services
  • Insurance
  • Healthcare
  • IT & Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Retail & E-commerce
  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics
  • Government
  • Education
  • Professional Services
  • Startups & SMEs

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and the leading cloud database services across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Let's Talk Databases

Secure. Available. Performing.

Start with a health check. You will know exactly what is wrong before you commit to fixing any of it.