Ongoing, proactive database administration delivered as a service. Your SQL Servers monitored 24/7, reviewed regularly, and supported by senior Australian DBAs - from $999/mo ex-GST, no lock-in contracts.
Managed DBA services are ongoing database administration delivered by an external specialist team instead of an in-house hire. DBA Services monitors, maintains, secures, and tunes your Microsoft SQL Server environment as a monthly service, giving you the coverage of a full-time database administrator at a fraction of the cost.
Our managed database administration covers the platform layer end to end - performance, security, availability, recoverability, and configuration. We administer the servers and databases; your data and applications stay entirely yours. That distinction matters: this is specialist SQL Server database administration, not data entry, reporting, or application development.
It suits organisations that need contract DBA services without the cost of a full-time hire, and teams that want outsourced SQL Server monitoring backed by senior DBAs who act on what the alerts show.
Delivery is remote-first through our Remote DBA support model, with on-site availability for projects that need it.
Tell us about your SQL Server estate and we'll come back with a scoped monthly quote. Month-to-month, no lock-in contracts.
From $999/mo ex-GST, includes up to 3 SQL Server instances.
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No obligation. No lock-in. We typically respond within minutes during business hours.
Most Australian organisations don't have enough SQL Server work to justify a full-time hire - but the risk of having nobody is real. Managed services close that gap.
| Full-time in-house DBA | Managed DBA Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical annual cost | $150,000+ salary, super & on-costs | From $11,988/yr ($999/mo ex-GST) |
| Coverage | Business hours, minus leave and sick days | 24/7/365 monitoring with on-call DBAs |
| Expertise | One person's experience | A senior team across performance, HA/DR, security & cloud |
| Monitoring tooling | Procured and maintained separately | Enterprise-grade agentless monitoring included |
| Scaling up or down | Hiring or redundancy cycles | Adjust hours month to month |
| Key-person risk | High - knowledge leaves with the person | None - documented environment, team continuity |
A proactive review for GMH Systems found a missing index behind a critical integration job that took 15 minutes per run. After the fix, the same job completed in 10 seconds. That's what regular specialist reviews catch - we find critical misconfigurations in 97% of the SQL Server environments we review.
Most clients are fully onboarded and protected within the first week.
A discovery call to understand your SQL Server environment - number of instances, criticality, current pain points, and support requirements. We recommend the right engagement level for your needs.
We finalise the engagement details - scope, SLA terms, billing arrangements, and communication protocols. No lock-in contracts, just a clear agreement on what's covered.
We work with your IT team to provision read-only monitoring access to your SQL Server instances. No agents to install, no software to deploy.
A comprehensive health check across your managed instances establishes a baseline, identifies existing issues, and maps your environment in detail.
Our DBAs analyse the findings, prioritise issues by severity and business impact, and present a remediation plan.
Agreed fixes are scheduled into maintenance windows, then the ongoing rhythm begins - monitoring, proactive reviews, and on-call support.
A managed DBA service is ongoing database administration delivered by an external specialist team. DBA Services monitors, maintains, secures, and tunes your Microsoft SQL Server environment under a monthly agreement - covering monitoring, incident response, proactive reviews, performance tuning, backup verification, security administration, and patching - with senior Australian DBAs on call 24/7.
Our managed DBA services start from $999 per month ex-GST, which includes up to 3 SQL Server instances, 24/7 monitoring, and on-call DBA support, billed in 15-minute increments. Compare that to $150,000+ a year for a full-time in-house DBA. There are no lock-in contracts - support is month-by-month.
They're closely related. Managed DBA services describes the engagement model - ongoing administration under a monthly agreement with defined coverage. Remote DBA support describes how it's delivered - our senior DBAs work remotely using agentless monitoring, with on-site availability when a project calls for it. At DBA Services, the same team and service level sits behind both.
Administration. We manage the SQL Server platform itself - performance, availability, security, recoverability, and configuration. We don't do data entry, report writing, or application development, and your data remains entirely under your control. If you're searching for database management services for Microsoft SQL Server, platform administration like ours is usually what's actually needed.
Yes. We support Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure VMs, and AWS RDS for SQL Server alongside on-premises instances - the same team, monitoring, and reporting across all of them.
We specialise exclusively in Microsoft SQL Server and its cloud variants. That focus is deliberate - it's how our DBAs stay genuinely senior in one platform rather than shallow across many.
Find out what's really going on inside your SQL Server environment.
Our health checks uncover critical misconfigurations in 97% of reviews.