Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check

Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is my MOST popular service. Customers opt for this service when they face performance issues with SQL Server. Based on the complexity of your system, it can take anywhere from 2–4 hours to complete the entire exercise.

We identify your performance problems and organize an action plan to resolve them during this exercise. Most of the time we will get to the part where we start implementing fixes within the first 75 minutes.

Here are six-part blog post series I have written based on my last 10 years of experience helping with the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. I strongly recommend you to read them as they walk you through my business model.

When do you Need This?

It is recommended that you opt for this service if you are facing any of the following issues with your server:

Application run slower
Long running queries
High CPU consumption
Inefficient memory consumption
Suddenly and abruptly getting slower queries
Lots of deadlocks
Frequent timeouts
Database log file growing continuously
Database backup slow or failing
Out of date index maintenance

During this service, we will work together and do a comprehensive health check of your system and find appropriate solutions.

What is Included in the Service?

I will explain every single setting of your system in detail to you and your team, along with guidance on the ideal settings for the system. I also will give you All of the Scripts that I use for analyzing your system’s performance with any necessary explanation.

Once we are done with the performance tuning analysis, you will know where exactly you have a performance bottleneck and its potential solution.

Here is a brief list of activities that we will do for a performance health check:

Index Analysis
Index Optimization
Index Maintenance
Server/Instance Level Configuration Check
I/O distribution Analysis
SQL Server Resource Wait Stats Analysis
TempDB Review
Database Files (MDF, NDF) and Log File Inspection
Log Reviews (Windows Event Logs, SQL Server Error Logs and Agent Logs)
DBCC Best Practices Implementations

I do not need any usernames or passwords or any other information about your system.

We will work via GoToMeeting where you will be always in control of your system. Every single change we do, or anything we need to deploy to improve the performance of your system, I will guide you how exactly do so. It is your server and you will be always in control. You need to know what all the changes are and how to undo each of them.

From helping over 400 different customers, I have developed a unique method where I can help you learn performance tuning concepts without taking control of your system.

Does the User get ALL the Scripts used During the Service?

Absolutely Yes.

You will receive every single script that we run during the service.

I will not take control of your system at all. I will send you all the scripts which you will execute while both of us are sharing the screen during GoToMeeting sessions. Based on the outcome, I will teach you what exactly to do to fix the diagnosed performance issue.

When I teach my customers how to do any performance tuning tasks, instead of doing it myself, I have observed that they get maximum return on their investment.

How Long Does it Take to Complete?

Maximum of 4 hours.

The entire Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check takes a maximum of 4 hours. I am sure you are wondering, ‘How can we improve performance in such a short time?’ The answer is very simple. I have worked with over 400 different customers on the performance tuning issue and I have seen all sorts of things. I have solutions ready for 99% of the performance problems out in the world.

There have been instances when everybody believed SQL Server was the root cause of the slowness, but the real culprit was totally different (e.g. Corrupted disk, memory issues with Virtual Machine, etc.). In any case, we will figure out how healthy your SQL Server is during this exercise.

The best part is that most of the changes that we will discuss do not need any downtime or restart of the server. You can easily do this during your business hours without impacting your users.

Trust me – you want me to resolve your performance issues in the shortest period of time, so you can spend time on things that are more important to you.

What is the Cost?

~~USD 3000~~ USD 2000 (33% discount till the end of this month).

The price is a fixed-rate price for the entire exercise and we will accomplish everything listed in the section ‘What is included in the service?‘.

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What is the Guarantee of this Service?

100% Efforts and 100% Transparency

When we get sick, we go to the doctor. We expect doctors to diagnose the illness and suggest a course of action to treat us. As a cure doctors usually prescribe medicine, give us a diet plan, or suggest a course of action to prevent the illness in the future.

It is exactly the same with databases. The slowness of your application can be either due to SQL Server or due to external reasons. We will figure out (diagnose) the root cause of the slowness. Together we will identify the root cause of the performance problems.

If your problem is related to SQL Server we will do any of the following:

Implement the configuration changes for SQL Server Databases
Identify the performance bottlenecks
Build a list of queries with areas of improvements
Craft a solid action plan for the future to avoid server slowness
Learn how to use various performance tuning scripts
Follow up email support for the next 28 days

I promise you that we will do our best efforts to fix your performance issues during the call. I am confident that before the session ends, you will have a clear plan of action to keep your database at the optimum speed in the future.

No refund on discounted purchases.

100% Transparency

As we discover performance issues for your server, I will give you a clear understanding of its potential impact on your system. I will provide you three choices for every issue which we find.

Implement it (after proper testing on a similar environment)
Study it first and implement it later
Skip it and let’s discuss the next point

You can choose any of the above options. At all the time, you will decide what you want to do with your server and you will keep all the controls. While I will give you scientific explanations, you will ultimately own the final decision of making the changes. As all the changes will be done by you, in the future, if you want to revert back any changes due to any reasons, you will be able to do that easily.

The goal of this consultancy to give you 100% mentorship and guidance which will help you to learn more about your system, so in the future, you know what to do exactly when similar problems arise.

If you decide to make changes, I strongly recommend that you do that on the development environment first. Once you see the positive changes, you should implement on the production system.

How to Get Started?

We can get started in just 3 simple steps:

Step 1: Send me an email at pinal@sqlauthority.com with the following information:

A brief about your problem
SQL Server Version(s)
Name of the Company
Your location (so that I know what time zone you are in)

Step 2: I will reply with the following information:

Earliest available calendar slot
Payment link (Credit Card, Debit Card, Bank Transfer and PayPal):

Once we agree on a meeting time and payment is received, we move on to Step 3.

Step 3: I will send you a GotoMeeting invite, which you can share with your team.

That’s it, we are ready to meet!

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