Licensing & compliance

The audit, from the people who built the method.

We have run SQL Server licensing and compliance audits in New Zealand for years. We still go deeper than anyone treating it as one line on a managed-services list.

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SQLTriage engine

One engine. 650+ checks.

The same engine runs behind every audit we do. It runs read-only, so there is no production impact, and it hands you a graded report you can act on. The community tier is free and open on GitHub. The full assessment is where the depth lives.

Read-onlyGraded reportFree community tierAI-readable output
# sqltriage --health-check --read-only
Scanning 12 instances ...
✓ 650+ checks run
! 3 critical · backups untested, sa enabled, no DR
~ 18 licensing findings · est. 31% recoverable
report → graded.md · evidence → audit/

Licensing

Every instance checked: edition, cores, Software Assurance, and what each one actually does. Then the cores you pay for and do not run.

NZ$50M+ taken off client bills

Compliance

A read-only audit that maps your estate to the controls auditors ask for: exposed accounts, encryption, patch level, recoverability. Evidence, not opinions.

Auditor-ready, in plain English
Mapped to the frameworks auditors actually use
NZ Privacy Act 2020ISO 27001CIS SQL Server BenchmarkEssential EightSOC 2 controls
What the compliance audit produces

Evidence against the controls — not a tidy opinion.

A compliance audit answers the five questions an auditor keeps coming back to, and hands you the proof behind each answer.

Access & identity

Who can reach the data and at what privilege — orphaned logins, over-privileged accounts, the shared sa nobody owns.

Encryption posture

At rest and in transit: what is protected, what is not, and which gaps a regulator will actually care about.

Patch & configuration

How current you are, where the CIS-benchmark gaps sit, and the misconfigurations that quietly widen exposure.

Recoverability

Backups that are restore-tested, retention that matches the obligation, and a DR plan someone has genuinely run.

Evidence pack

Each finding mapped to a control and graded, with the artefact behind it — the thing your auditor asks for and rarely gets.

Why specialists, not a bundle

Depth you can only get from doing one thing.

Senior only

No juniors, no account managers between you and the person fixing it.

SQL Server only

Not one practice among twelve. This is the whole business.

A number, not a promise

Every finding carries a dollar figure or a control reference. Biggest wins first.

I didn't even know this was possible.Susan, Senior DBA
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