If you don’t currently have database administration (DBA) expertise in-house and you’re interested in maintaining and supporting your databases, you may be looking at outsourcing your DBA function to a third-party database services provider (like Koderly).
Businesses will employ a DBA to ensure that their business-critical databases, and the applications that depend on them, remain performant, available, and secure, both now and for the future.
Companies that don’t properly configure and maintenance their databases will see an impact on application performance and data security.
What is normally included in a DBA service?
The tasks that a DBA performs will depend on the size and complexity of the database environment, but may include:
- Live monitoring and responding to alerts
- Capacity planning
- Query performance monitoring and tuning
- Deadlock investigations
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Database backups and maintenance
- Patching and upgrades
As businesses become more data-driven, it’s even more important to properly store and manage your data, however you may not have the internal expertise and want to outsource to a database services provider.
5 advantages of outsourcing your DBA
70% of British B2B companies outsource key business operations. 34% of B2B businesses outsource some or all of their IT function, making it the UK’s most common outsourced service (Exploding Topics).
1. Cost efficiency
Hiring an internal DBA team can be time-consuming and expensive, particularly as IT salaries have risen significantly in recent years.
By outsourcing your DBA, you’ll have access to a team of DBA experts who can focus on maintaining and optimising your databases, whilst also saving you money when compared to the cost of hiring a full-time internal team.
2. Scalability and flexibility
A lot of businesses need DBA expertise to complete a particular project, but they don’t feel they need a full-time DBA all year round.
By outsourcing your DBA function or database projects, an external DBA team can provide the right level of resource for your organisation, and scale-out that resource when those business-critical projects come around.
3. Productivity
Often, a senior member of the IT team has accidentally taken on the role of DBA, because they were the only one who knew about the database.
If this is you, then it may ultimately be making you less productive.
Outsourcing the DBA role to a team of experts will allow you to focus your time and effort on the areas that matter most in your business.
4. Continuity and knowledge share
By outsourcing your DBA team, you are ensuring that knowledge and support of your critical databases is spread across a large team of SQL Server experts, who are up-to-date with the latest technologies.
They will also have years of experience across a range of industries and workloads, and can bring that experience to your environment.
5. 7-day a week support
Your business-critical databases can experience issues at any time of day, and you may not want to impact your internal DBA team’s work-life balance.
By outsourcing to an external DBA team that provides emergency out-of-hours support, you can be rest assured that there is always someone available to help resolve an urgent problem.
Outsourcing DBA to Koderly
If you have a SQL Server environment, and you’re looking for a UK-based team of database experts to manage, maintain, and optimise your databases, you’ll receive:
- Free consultation
- A service that is tailored to your environment
- Live monitoring and alerts
- Capacity planning
- Query performance monitoring and tuning
- Deadlock investigations
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Database backups and maintenance
- Patching and upgrades
- 363-days a year and out of hours support
- Quarterly reviews and reports
- Access to a team of UK-based SQL Server experts from a Microsoft Partner
At Koderly, we have 22+ years’ experience supporting, maintaining, and monitoring SQL Server databases. Find out more about our database services and read our testimonials and case studies, or contact us.
