Databases that stay fast, consistent and recoverable

Most database problems are decided on the first day. A table that mixes customers and suppliers, prices stored as text, dates without a time zone: each one is harmless at a hundred records and painful at a million. We spend time on the data model before any code is written, walking through real scenarios such as refunds, partial deliveries and customers who change their name.

Where your business crosses borders, we plan for it early. That means storing currency alongside every amount, recording times in UTC and keeping personal data in a shape that makes requests under the NDPA, GDPR or UK GDPR easy to answer. Getting this right at the start costs very little. Fixing it later costs a migration.

Moving data from an old system is where projects lose sleep. We rehearse every migration on a copy of your real data, compare record counts and totals between old and new, and write down the exact steps for the live cut-over, including how to roll back.

For systems that cannot go offline, we use replication to keep old and new in step and switch over in minutes. For smaller moves, a planned evening window is often enough. Either way, you see the reconciliation report before anyone calls it done.

We also look past the move itself. Old systems often carry years of workarounds: free-text fields used as status codes, the same customer saved under three spellings. A migration is the best moment to tidy these up, and we agree the rules with you so nothing changes without your say.

Plenty of businesses discover their backups are broken on the day they need them. We automate backups, store copies in a separate location or account, and schedule restore tests so there is proof they work. You get a runbook that tells whoever is on duty what to do, in order, if the worst happens.

Alongside backups we set up monitoring for the warning signs that come before an outage: storage filling up, queries slowing down, replication falling behind. Alerts go to the person who can act on them, not to a shared inbox nobody reads. If you prefer, we can keep watch on a monthly support arrangement and handle routine upgrades and patching, so your database always runs on a supported, secure version.