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Database Operations

Remote DBA Support Performance Tuning High Availability and DR Managed Services

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Database Migrations Cloud Migrations Data Replication

Security

Database Hardening Active Directory Integration
Not sure where to start?

The Database Ninja team can assess your current database landscape and build a roadmap tailored to your goals. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server, we speak all major database platforms.

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
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Phase Two

Design the target state before you build it.

The Architect phase translates what we learned in Assess into a concrete plan. Target architecture, technology choices, migration paths, rollback strategies, and a sequenced implementation plan your team can execute against with confidence.

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Overview

A plan you can actually execute.

Architect phase target state design

Architecture is the phase where most consulting engagements produce beautiful PowerPoint decks that cannot survive contact with production. The Database Ninja team does it differently. Our Architect phase produces concrete, testable, implementable designs, not conceptual frameworks.

We design the target state in collaboration with your team. We select the specific technologies, patterns, and configurations that will get you there. We plan the migration sequence so every step is reversible until the moment you commit. We build a rehearsal plan so the first time we test the new architecture is never in production.

By the end of the Architect phase, you have architecture diagrams that map to real components, an implementation plan broken into deliverable milestones, a detailed rollback strategy, and a shared understanding of the decisions and trade-offs behind every choice.

What's Included

What happens during Architect.

Target State Design

Architecture diagrams, data flows, component inventories. Every piece of the new system mapped and justified.

Technology Selection

Specific database versions, extensions, replication tools, and operational tooling chosen with clear rationale for each decision.

Migration Sequence Planning

Step-by-step plan from current state to target state, broken into milestones that can be delivered and validated independently.

Rollback Strategy

Every forward step has a tested reverse. Before we design the path forward, we design the path back.

Rehearsal Plan

Full production-scale dress rehearsal designed before any production change. The first test is never in production.

Decision Log

Every architectural choice documented with rationale, alternatives considered, and trade-offs. You can defend the decisions to your leadership or audit.

Why Database Ninja

Why our architecture phase delivers.

Built by operators

Our architects have operated the systems they design. The plans reflect what actually works in production, not what sounds good in a presentation.

Reversible by default

Every step has a rollback. You can pause, reverse, or change direction at any point during Execute without losing work.

Collaborative, not imposed

We design with your team, not for them. By the end of Architect, your engineers own the plan as much as we do.

Ready to start?

Turn findings into a real plan.

Whether you are coming out of an assessment or already know where you want to go, we can architect the path from here to there. Tell us what you are trying to build.