{"id":750,"date":"2010-01-19T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Remote-DB-maintenance-auditing-promotion.aspx"},"modified":"2010-01-19T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:40:00","slug":"remote-db-maintenance-auditing-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/remote-db-maintenance-auditing-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote DB maintenance auditing promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Okay, this post is describing some new services we provide (we are a consulting firm after all :-),&nbsp;but there&#39;s a promotion at the bottom where you can save $$$ on one of the new services. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We&#39;re starting to offer a set of standalone auditing services that we can perform remotely, greatly reducing the cost of having someone come on-site to evaluate your SQL Server environment. The new standalone audit services we are providing are: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Database maintenance and operations audit of your SQL Server environment <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Disaster recovery and high-availability audit of your SQL Server environment<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The remote audits take the form of us giving you some non-intrusive scripts to run on each server, plus a detailed questionnaire to fill in. We analyze the results and send you a list of recommendations, with supporting explanations and links to deeper information. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">As part of a regular remote consulting engagement, we&#39;d also be engaging with the DBA team through web-meetings, phone calls, email conversations to undertake performance tuning, design work, and so on. However,&nbsp;many people just want to buy a small, limited&nbsp;block of time to run a quick audit and get the OK or a set of changes to implement to improve operations &#8211; this is where the standalone audits come in.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The standalone audit services we offer take a much shorter time (depending on environment size) than a regular consulting engagement, as they don&#39;t involve web-meetings and in-depth interaction with the DBA team, so they&#39;re a lot more cost-effective when on a tight budget.&nbsp;Of course, we&nbsp;also provide remote performance tuning, available in small blocks of time rather than an open-ended engagement, and the traditional &#39;figure out all sorts of problems&#39; consulting engagements.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">These audits are usually billed at our regular offsite consulting rate, but as an initial promotion <strong>I&#39;ll perform a database maintenance audit for $500 to the first 10 new customers who&nbsp;sign up&nbsp;before the end of January<\/strong>, limited to 4 hours of my time (a 50% saving over our regular rates). <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Shoot me an email (through the contact button at the top of the page) if you&#39;re interested in any of these services and\/or want to be one of the lucky few to take part in the promotion. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">We look forward to working with you!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this post is describing some new services we provide (we are a consulting firm after all :-),&nbsp;but there&#39;s a promotion at the bottom where you can save $$$ on one of the new services. 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