Expert Database Advice
Database Health Checks
Comprehensive diagnostics that identify weaknesses in your estate
Pinpointing poor performance
The purpose of database health checks is to examine your estate for bottlenecks, emerging issues, and opportunities to optimise performance. When rapid access to your data is essential, regular database health checks are a must. In short, our database health checks involve anything that could affect your overall database performance, security, and resilience. We analyse and report in detail with recommendations highlighted for your benefit.
Why conduct a database health check?
Performance impacts productivity
Poor database health is a serious cause for concern. Poor performance directly impacts productivity, leading to rising business costs. Suboptimal database performance also poses a far higher risk of database failure, which means indefinite downtime until a replacement can be sourced and installed.
Another risk is that your database reaches its official end of life support. Using a database beyond this period is not recommended because it means that you will no longer receive critical quality of life updates or essential security patches.
Pathway to peak performance
However, health checks aren’t just for troubleshooting database problems. They analyse how your databases can be expected to perform under peak conditions, which allows you to proactively plan upgrades and expand your capacity to manage growth.
Regular database maintenance can also reduce the cost of upgrades and ongoing maintenance by catching problems as they happen, instead of allowing them to accumulate until the next upgrade or migration.
How our database health check works
Minimal disruption, maximum insight
Our database health check is a low-impact review of the structure of your Oracle or SQL Server instances. There are a wide array of diagnostic tools available for assessing database performance, but at Xynomix we use our own assessment, designed and developed in-house by our expert DBAs.
Every database health check is carried out and watched to completion by an independent Xynomix DBA. We then manually check over certain aspects that are not captured in the health check. This has zero impact on the users. For example our team typically analyses the overall instance configuration to check the memory settings, parallelism settings, and more.
Benefits of regular database health checks
Ensure Backup & DR is Functioning Properly
Guarantee rapid data restoration and minimal disruption by validating backup and disaster recovery processes. Knowing that your critical data is recoverable provides invaluable peace of mind.
Add resilienceWhy Xynomix?
Independent database consultancy
Our database health checks are designed to ensure the optimal performance, security, and scalability of your database infrastructure. We offer comprehensive database health checks, including SQL Server health checks and Oracle database health checks, to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks.
By providing tailored support for Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we ensure your databases are always running at peak efficiency, reducing the risk of downtime and improving overall system reliability.
Carving your pathway to peak performance
Comprehensive support for Oracle and SQL Server database environments
With our managed services, you can easily check database health across multiple platforms, including Oracle DB and SQL Server. Our experts deliver detailed health checks, from MS SQL Server health checks to Oracle Cloud health check services, to monitor, diagnose, and optimise your database environment.
Whether you’re in need of a SQL health check or ongoing database management, we offer proactive monitoring, tuning, and security updates to ensure that your database infrastructure supports the growth of your business.
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Health checks in sensitive data environments
Since database health checks involve granting access to an organisation’s most confidential data, it’s essential to choose a reputable partner with a good track record. As such, we’re proud to be certified to Cyber Essentials and the ISO:27001 standard.
Plus, we’re trusted to handle sensitive data, for organisations like the Ministry of Defence.
