Specialist SQL Server consulting for companies with mission-critical data — Finance, Insurance, Large Retail, Electronics, Logistics and Sports Retail. Senior DBAs, performance audits, HA/DR architecture and NIS2 security.
When something breaks, or when something can work much better: focused, well-defined interventions with measurable results.
An SSIS job that used to run and now fails, sudden timeouts, errors, procedures that break? We start from the symptom and find the root cause — data, configuration, permissions, resources, locking or code. Focused diagnosis across the whole SQL Server stack, not just queries.
Making the system fast and efficient, with or without an active problem. Wait stats analysis, index review, query and configuration tuning. From "it works" to "it flies", with measurable results in days, not weeks.
NIS2 Article 21 audits, instance hardening, permission management, encryption and vulnerability assessment. Executive reports and remediation plans.
One-off interventions are our calling card. But with many clients the relationship runs deeper: we support them over time and deliver projects that put data where it belongs.
Your senior DBA team, without hiring one. Ongoing management of the data platform, side-by-side work with internal teams, proactive monitoring, governance and evolutionary maintenance. On a retainer or pay-as-you-go, on-prem and cloud — with the flexibility to scale when needed.
Design and evolution of the data architecture, High Availability and Disaster Recovery for operational continuity. Migrations and upgrades to new SQL Server versions and to the Microsoft cloud — Azure SQL, Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure VMs. Minimal downtime, zero data loss.
Design of data warehouses and Business Intelligence solutions: data modeling, ETL flows with SSIS, analysis with SSAS and reporting with SSRS, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. From raw data to business insight.
Concrete projects on critical environments, where the result is measured in numbers. The first three come from the journey that led to SQL Advisory; clients are anonymized for confidentiality.
An entirely manual IVASS reporting process, hanging on two technicians on their way out. We turned it into an automated pipeline that validates data at the source and runs itself.
A business-critical high-availability environment to migrate without stopping the business. New environment in parallel, controlled failover, old system as a safety net until the very last moment.
Hundreds of processes duplicated country by country, a ten-hour run at risk of overrunning. Rebuilt at the root: a single read that distributes to every country in one pass.
No intervention without diagnosis. A systematic technical assessment of the SQL Server environment — at instance level and for every database — before proposing any solution.
Every industry has its own specifics — volumes, SLAs, regulations, workload patterns. We work with companies whose data is complex and whose downtime is not an option.
Every engagement follows four precise phases. No improvisation: 25+ years of experience on critical instances.
Gathering context, perceived pain points and business goals.
DMV analysis, configuration review, root-cause identification.
Agreed execution: fixes, optimizations, hardening or refactoring.
Executive summary for management, T-SQL and technical docs for the team.
Clients with mission-critical SQL Server estates across six industry verticals.
"Outstanding technical expertise and a professional approach. A solid reference point for our SQL Server platform."
"Timely interventions, clear documentation. Solved in hours problems we'd had for months."
"A reliable partner for our SQL infrastructure. Always available and straight to the point."
SQL Server down, blocked queries, production at a standstill. Buy the package online, we connect within 2 business hours. Minimum 4h — anything less isn't enough to even understand the problem.
If the engagement starts within this window, we respond within 2 business hours and stay on the problem until the system is stabilized — beyond office hours if needed: we don't walk away in the middle of an incident. Incidents opened outside the window (night, weekends, holidays): best-effort handling, at a rate to be agreed.
The time shown is our CET service window converted to your local time — not a local-hours window — and it accounts for daylight saving automatically. It's detected from your device's clock (a VPN won't change it). Where the window falls at night for you, incidents are still covered best-effort, at a rate to be agreed.
Best-efforts obligation. The intervention applies expertise and diligence to diagnose and stabilize the system (restore operations); it does not guarantee a specific outcome: full data recovery depends on the availability and integrity of the client's backups. Any hours beyond the initial block are agreed during the intervention. Full service terms →
For planned interventions, mentoring, reviews or training. Minimum 4h. Online card payment, immediate invoice.
This pre-paid time can be used for both online and offline assistance, billed in 30-minute increments, with the following minimums: conference calls minimum 1 hour; offline assistance (e.g. email) minimum 30 minutes. Pre-paid time is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.
SQL Advisory is a new venture, founded to give structure to expertise built over more than 25 years on the Microsoft data platform.
Data Platform Architect and DBA working on Microsoft SQL Server since 1998 — back to version 6.5 — with a demonstrated history in the information technology and services industry. Skilled across the SQL Server environment (Engine, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Power BI, SQL Azure IaaS and PaaS), with a focus on SQL Server configuration, database modeling and design, performance tuning and optimization. He also serves as Team Leader on DWH and BI projects for insurance companies and banking groups.
He focuses primarily on the analysis, maintenance and performance tuning of data objects and flows in Microsoft SQL Server environments: refactoring stored procedures and T-SQL functions to cut execution time and computational load, optimizing complex views through calculation-logic review and strategic indexing, improving SSIS package performance across data flows and transformations, and analysing bottlenecks with profiling, execution plans and DMVs. The goal is to maximize data-system performance, increasing reliability and reducing operating costs.
With 15+ years of experience, he is exclusively focused on Microsoft SQL Server. He collaborates effectively with colleagues, creating the chemistry a team needs to perform at the top level. He approaches every new challenge with a can-do attitude, putting concrete initiatives on the table to help the team overcome it.
Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect with deep knowledge of Microsoft cloud services: networking, virtualization, identity and security, HA/DR and data platforms. He holds a Master's degree in quantitative finance with a strong focus on statistics and programming. In 2021 he founded Datasoluzioni, where he works as a data professional and architect specialized in Microsoft Azure solutions and hybrid-cloud infrastructures for data management and analytics: Azure architectural setup, migrations, system integration in hybrid environments, and development on SQL Server and Azure SQL for data engineering and business intelligence. He is also experienced in Azure DevOps for infrastructure-as-code deployments and Git/TFS project management.
All calls are remote. Pick a format, find an open slot on the calendar, receive the video call link.
First conversation: you describe the situation, we figure out if and how we can help. No commitment, no automatic quote.
For those who already know what they need: we analyse a specific problem, a critical instance or a project to plan. Summary report included.
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