{"id":533,"date":"2011-09-28T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Who-is-watching-over-your-precious-SQL-Servers-while-youre-busy.aspx"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T08:37:00","slug":"who-is-watching-over-your-precious-sql-servers-while-youre-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/who-is-watching-over-your-precious-sql-servers-while-youre-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is watching over your precious SQL Servers while you’re busy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI bet you'd love the answer to be "SQLskills.com"? Well now it can be.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOver the last few months some of our clients for whom we've performed SQL Server health checks on their critical servers have asked us if we'd consider a regular service where we perform mini-health checks on those same servers and also permanently monitor the servers for anything untoward happening.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNow that we're expanding our team of world-class SQL experts again (more details on Friday!) we have the capacity to do this, so today I'm announcing a new "remote DBA" service<\/strong>.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOnce we've completed an initial health check of the SQL Server instances you'd like us to look after, we'll install a monitoring package that will alert you and us by email if anything out-of-the-ordinary happens (in response to which we'll log in and see what's up) and on a regular interval (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly – whatever works for you and your budget) we'll log in and perform a mini health check to ensure that things are ticking along nicely. We can log in with or without you being present – completely up to you – and of course we'll be under complete NDA. And we can do it anywhere in the world.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe're the company that shows people how to be great DBAs and we solve the nasty performance\/SAN\/design problems that others give up on.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy not take the pressure off, get some peace of mind, and let us be *your* DBAs?<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nExorbitantly expensive? Not at all – you're paying for hours we work, not a massive retainer.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf you're interested in finding out more details, <\/font>send me an email<\/font><\/a>.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt may just be the best investment you make all year.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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