Oracle

Deep expertise across Oracle AI Database 26ai, 19c, Exadata, ODA, RAC, Data Guard, and GoldenGate. We have managed Oracle estates at every scale.

26ai19cRACData GuardExadata

PostgreSQL

Production PostgreSQL engineering with pgvector for AI workloads, logical replication, and high availability through Patroni.

pgvectorPatroniReplicationPgBouncer

MySQL

MySQL and MariaDB performance tuning, InnoDB Cluster high availability, Group Replication, and migration planning at production scale.

InnoDB ClusterGroup ReplicationMariaDB

SQL Server

SQL Server performance optimization, Always On Availability Groups, Azure SQL migrations, and cross-platform moves to PostgreSQL or Oracle.

Always OnAzure SQLSSIS

AI Platform

Get your team aligned on AI before you build anything.

Most AI projects fail because the team never agreed on what they were trying to accomplish. The Database Ninja team runs hands-on workshops that surface assumptions, align stakeholders, and produce a concrete roadmap your engineering and business leaders both believe in.

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Overview

Strategy you can actually execute.

The hardest part of an AI initiative is rarely the technology. It is getting engineering, product, security, and business leadership to agree on what you are trying to build, why, and what success looks like. Without that alignment, every implementation decision becomes a fight, every change request becomes a rework, and every milestone slips.

The Database Ninja team facilitates structured workshops that get everyone in the same room and walk them through the decisions that matter. We bring real experience from production AI deployments, frameworks for prioritizing use cases, and a neutral perspective that lets stakeholders speak honestly without political risk.

Workshops typically run two to five days depending on scope and team size. Every session ends with documented decisions, action items, and a roadmap that your team owns and can defend.

What's Included

What our workshops cover.

Stakeholder Discovery

We interview your engineering, product, security, and business leaders before the workshop to surface concerns and align expectations.

Use Case Prioritization

Structured frameworks for evaluating AI use cases on impact, feasibility, and risk. We separate the urgent from the merely interesting.

Data and Infrastructure Reality Check

Honest evaluation of whether your data and infrastructure can actually support the use cases on the table.

Risk and Governance Framing

Where the regulatory, security, and reputational risks live, and how to design around them from day one.

Architecture Sketching

High-level reference architectures for the top use cases, sized for your environment.

Roadmap and Action Plan

A documented roadmap with milestones, owners, and dependencies. Your team leaves the workshop with something they can execute against on Monday.

Why Database Ninja

Why Database Ninja runs these workshops.

Database-grounded

Most AI strategy consultants have never operated a production database. We start from the data layer and work outward. The trade-offs are concrete because we have lived them.

Vendor-neutral

We have no products to sell you. The recommendations are honest. If your best path is something we cannot help you with, we will tell you and refer you.

Built to ship

Our workshops produce action plans, not strategy decks. Every workshop ends with a roadmap your team owns and can defend to leadership.

Ready to start?

Stop debating AI strategy. Decide it.

Tell us who needs to be in the room and what is on the table. We will scope a workshop that gets your team to clarity and alignment.