Analysis will typically take one day on site plus one to two days to provide a detailed report of the findings. Additional data gathering may be required for periods of up to a week to get a more detailed picture. Any recommendations that we make will include the timescales needed for any remedial work.

We include analysis of the design, set up, management and performance of the database, and we also report on security, backups, space management and interaction with the applications your applications. Health checks are also a very useful way of demonstrating when a database does not require any change.

Reports

A detailed report is produced covering the following areas:

• Database and application set up
• Space management
• Performance
• Parameters
• Capacity
• Security
• Design and data usage
• Backup and recovery strategy
• Management procedures
• Patch and revision levels
• Scale of urgency for any changes
• Timescales needed for remedial action
• Estimated costs to make remedial changes