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Database Operations

Remote DBA Support Performance Tuning High Availability and DR Managed Services

Migration Services

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 One

Start with honest diagnosis, not assumptions.

Every Database Ninja engagement begins with structured discovery. We build a complete, evidence-based picture of your database estate, your team, and your business objectives before we recommend a single action.

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Overview

Discovery is where outcomes are won or lost.

Assess phase diagnostic discovery

Most database engagements fail because someone skipped discovery. They trusted the tribal knowledge, they reused an old runbook, or they jumped to an answer before understanding the question. The Database Ninja team does not start there. Every engagement begins with a structured assessment phase designed to surface what matters before any work begins.

We conduct stakeholder interviews with engineering, operations, and business leadership. We run automated profiling across your schemas, workloads, and operational telemetry. We review architecture, security posture, team capability, and business alignment. We ask the uncomfortable questions the last consultant was afraid to ask.

By the end of the Assess phase, you have a shared understanding with us about what is really going on, what needs to change, and what the priorities are. No assumptions carried into Architect. No surprises carried into Execute.

What's Included

What happens during Assess.

Stakeholder Interviews

Structured conversations with your DBAs, developers, platform owners, and business stakeholders. We listen before we recommend.

Automated Profiling

Deep introspection of your databases. Schema complexity, query patterns, index health, wait statistics, replication lag, backup integrity.

Architecture Review

We map your current topology, identify single points of failure, and evaluate how well the architecture matches your actual workload.

Security and Compliance Audit

Privilege inventory, encryption posture, audit configuration, and a gap analysis against your compliance framework.

Team and Process Capability

Honest evaluation of what your team can run today, what they need help with, and where the knowledge gaps are.

Prioritized Findings Report

A shared document that captures everything we learned, ranks the issues, and frames the decisions that follow.

Why Database Ninja

Why we refuse to skip this phase.

Assumptions are expensive

Every hour spent in assessment saves weeks of wasted implementation. We have seen what happens when teams skip discovery. The rework costs more than the assessment.

Evidence over opinion

Our findings are backed by data from your actual environment, not generic recommendations. When we tell you something needs attention, we can show you why.

Alignment before action

By the time we leave the Assess phase, everyone on your side and ours agrees on what the problems are. That alignment is what makes Architect and Execute fast.

Ready to start?

See your database estate clearly.

Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will scope an assessment that fits your timeline and budget. Typical engagements run two to four weeks depending on estate size.