We find the risk
hiding in your
SQL Server.
We tell you what it costs the business, and fix it. Specialist DBAs — New Zealand based, working across New Zealand, Australia and the US.
Your servers are running fine. You know that. The question is what's sitting underneath, waiting.
Specialist SQL Server. Nothing else.
We're not a managed-services provider that also touches databases. SQL Server is the whole job — performance, availability, licensing, recoverability, security.
We start by understanding what you actually depend on, then we find the risk, tell you what it costs in plain English, and fix it. You get someone who has fixed your exact problem before — not a junior reading a script, and not a brochure.
One platform, done properly.
Not networks, not helpdesk, not "IT". The full SQL Server picture, from the first query plan to the long-term managed service.
Performance tuning
We read your wait stats, find the queries doing the damage, fix the cause, and show you the before-and-after.
High availability & DR
Stay up when something fails. Come back when something bigger does. Built around your real RPO and RTO.
Migrations & upgrades
On-prem, Azure, or a new version. We test the move on a copy, then cut over with a rollback ready.
Licensing audit
Find what you're overpaying. We usually take 20 to 40% off the SQL bill. Read-only, no production impact.
Managed SQL service
We catch the problem before it becomes an outage — whether you run one instance or a hundred. Not break-fix; we watch it so you don't have to.
Compliance & security
A hardened estate and the exact evidence auditors ask for: access, encryption, patching, recoverability.
A five-step process, refined over twenty years.
That's how long we've spent building and running enterprise SQL platforms — long enough to learn how to change critical systems without breaking them. Here's how every engagement runs.
Discover
We start with what the business actually depends on, then run a deep, read-only diagnostic of your SQL estate. Our checks go well beyond the usual scripts — they're built in-house — so we see what's really there: the untested backup, the over-provisioned licence, the failover nobody has tried. You get a graded report in plain English, not a wall of red.
Design
With the findings on the table, we design the fix — and cost it. We spell out the return — what it saves, what risk it removes, how long it lasts — and walk your team through it before anything changes.
Deliver
Most of what we touch is business-critical, so we treat delivery with care: tested on a copy, cut over in a window you control, with a rollback ready. Remote or on-site, usually fixed-price, always inside the agreed timeframe and downtime.
Optimise
A new platform behaves differently under real load. We monitor it, tune it, and keep tuning — our own diagnostics alongside industry tooling — so the result still holds up months later, not just on day one.
Manage
If you want us to, we keep it running. Not the reactive break-fix a conventional MSP sells — a managed service that spots problems coming and heads them off before they become outages. You spend less time minding SQL Server, more time on the business.
Day to day, the work that keeps SQL Server honest.
- Query and index tuning
- Wait-stat and bottleneck analysis
- Licensing right-sizing
- Capacity and consolidation
- Always On and failover clustering
- Backups that are actually restore-tested
- DR you have genuinely rehearsed
- Corruption and integrity checks
- On-prem and Azure migrations
- Version upgrades, kept compatible
- Access, encryption and patching
- Audit-ready evidence
New Zealand based. Trusted across three markets.
Home is New Zealand, with consultants in the main centres. We also run engagements for active clients in Australia and the United States. Most of the work is remote — secure access to your estate, not a flight — so wherever your servers live, distance is no barrier.
We've fixed this exact problem a few hundred times.
$20k to save $200k. Best buy ever.Chris, CEOFMCG distributor, New Zealand Performance
This is just incredible. We cannot thank you enough.Ken, Data Team LeadGlobal corporate-travel platform Recoverability
You guys are amazing. I didn't even know this was possible.Susan, Senior DBAMetropolitan transport agency
You won't find client logos here. Here's why.
Given the sensitive nature of what we do — the risks we find, the systems we touch — we don't publish client names or logos. We have in the past, and even that drew attention nobody wanted.
So the proof on this site is real outcomes with the names softened. If you want more, we're happy to share references and put you in touch with existing clients, confidentially. Ask, and we'll arrange it.
The things people ask first.
Is the health check really free, and is it safe?
Yes. It's read-only — we look at configuration and usage metadata, change nothing on your servers, and there's no production impact. You get a graded report in plain English whether or not we ever work together.
What do you actually check?
Backups and recoverability, security and access, patching, configuration, performance, and licensing — the full picture, set out across our data platform services. The same engine runs behind every assessment: 500+ checks, well beyond the usual scripts.
How much can a licensing audit save?
Usually 20 to 40% of your SQL licensing spend, sometimes more. We've taken over NZ$50 million off client bills — about $7 million a year. See how a licensing audit works.
Do you do ongoing management, or just projects?
Both. We do one-off fixes and audits, and we run a managed SQL service for clients who want us to keep it healthy long term.
On-prem, Azure, or both?
All of it. On-premises, Azure (VM, Managed Instance, or Azure SQL), version upgrades, and cloud repatriation when the cloud bill stops making sense.
Do you only work with New Zealand businesses?
No. We're New Zealand based — with consultants across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch — and active clients in Australia and the United States too. The assessment runs remotely, so where you are is no barrier.
Start with a free SQL Server health check.
We run a read-only check, with no production impact, and hand you a graded report in plain English. The findings are yours to keep — no strings.