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Database services

Database services

Here at 7 Hills, we are skilled, sophisticated, and experienced in SQL consultancy. Our service has been carefully designed to offer a dynamic range of activities and advice in SQL Server consulting. We love collaborating and building strong relationships with our clients because we know that trust is important, and part of what makes trust is, of course, clarity and defining clear goals for your business.

If your database is critical to your business, then SQL Server consulting services are crucial to the ongoing integrity of your SQL Database. Database services are available everywhere, however, professional database services can be difficult to find. We help you achieve your goals with industry-best practices. From initial discussions through to planning and execution, you will find working with 7Hills a welcome change.

Simplified database operations

Simplify operations for all your Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB databases.

Operational consistency and increased productivity

Automate patching, upgrades, cloning, and backups to ensure operational consistency and free up time for higher value tasks.

Retain control and maintain database standards

Choose the right operating systems, database versions and database extensions to meet application and compliance requirements.

Accelerate software development

Integrate with infrastructure management and developer tools for self-service database deployment, shortening time-to-market.

What services can we provide?

Working with 7Hills gives you peace of mind, knowing that the experts in our organisation are an extension of your internal (IT) department, working to your needs.

Efficient DBA Services plays a vital role in maintaining and enhancing infrastructure. 7HILLS works with your organization to minimize database operations’ costs and complexities by providing proactive, multi-tier remote DBA support services. Based on business requirements, clients can choose from a wide variety of options, which addresses specific needs and provide coverage for your entire database operations.

Cloud infrastructure and platform services are evolving rapidly, 7Hills are cloud experts, advising companies large and small. From a managed instance to backups to the cloud, we will ensure that your SQL Server Database is as safe and resilient as it can be. Alongside this, you would also be enjoying the benefits of a hyperscale provider; increased reliability, mass adoption, lower costs, always available and instant access to a wealth of feature services.

By integrating best-in-class security, and comprehensive cloud-managed services, we engineer platforms and modernize infrastructure through automation and software-defined capabilities. Accelerate your productivity with Azure’s PaaS Databases services to benefit from high availability architecture, a scalable development model, and a relational data model. Whether it is Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, or Mongo DB, we can help you migrate your existing data to Azure Database services using Azure Data Migration service.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery are vital if a company is to ensure its ability to continue BAU service levels. Planned or unplanned downtime and recognising the difference between High availability is ensuring 99.999% availability and Disaster Recovery is ensuring service recovery in as short a time as possible. 7Hills will advise on the best available solutions, considering your RPO & RTO objectives. These will be defined within the business impact assessment and often carried out under the business continuity plan. All of which we can advise on.

  • Regular Health Checks (manual and automated) to give feedback on best practice, rectify system configuration issues and highlight potential trouble spots
  • Patching SQL instances, standalone and clustered
  • Working with you to run DR Tests
  • Detailed Performance Tuning to optimize key processes and remove bottlenecks.
  • Upgrading SQL versions and database migrations
  • Backup and restoring databases. Cloning environments for testing.
  • Providing operation support for the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) stack; SSRS, SSIS, SSAS
  • To reduce the interruption and downtime to your business
  • 24×7 monitoring and on-call database cover available
  • Working with your application vendor (ISV)to ensure compatibility and ensure smooth migrations
  • Backup schedules and backup strategy to accommodate your business recovery plan
  • Ensuring peace of mind that your system is being looked after and worked on even when no one is in your office.

The aim of a good patching strategy is to ensure stability and security whilst juggling the “patch or not to patch” question frequently faced by Business as Usual (BAU) DBA’s. From cumulative updates to service packs, to versions and applications issues, time and testing availability; this is a function best outsourced to a specialist company who won’t be side-tracked by other issues or find themselves on holiday during a patch cycle.

7Hills advises and works with you to construct a robust but flexible patching strategy that fits within the constraints of the business. 

we provide the necessary storage for your cloud applications and enable you to safeguard, replicate, and fail-proof your virtual machines.  With Azure Backup services and Azure Site Recovery services, we can provide DR and business continuity end to end.

7Hills will provide a Health Check giving advice and any recommendations to non-critical issues. The Health Checks are an informative source of information that will allow 7Hills to provide details of backups, table space, performance levels and space on the SQL Server. 7Hills will then highlight any areas of concern and work with you to start addressing any non-critical issues. It is important to know that our proactive monitoring will pick up these issues with a Health Check and then providing a snapshot in time to give guidance to our customers. We can run through any part of the Health Checks that need addressing and work with you to produce a road map to forge ahead.

Many reasons drive SQL Server migrations: new hardware, migration to the cloud, version upgrades, new applications, or application upgrades, all of which can present challenges. If not planned effectively and delivered carefully, these will often result in unplanned outages. 7Hills are experts in migrations, having been involved in all versions from the ‘90s onwards. We advise on best practice ensuring that you have a clear view of all the steps involved, but notwithstanding the essential elements covering:

  • Planning
  • Test Migration
  • Live Migration
  • Backout plan