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The same checklist our DBAs work through before recommending a single change to a production estate. Use it yourself, or hand it to your existing provider and ask for the evidence.
Two fields. The full checklist unlocks on this page straight away.
Confirm full, differential and log backup schedules for every database, verify retention, and check the last successful restore test.
Why it matters: A backup that has never been restored is an assumption, not a recovery plan.
Document how much data the business can afford to lose and how long it can be offline, then compare that to what the current configuration can actually deliver.
Why it matters: Most estates we review cannot meet the recovery targets the business assumes.
Review availability groups, failover clustering or log shipping, synchronisation health, and whether failover has been tested in the last 12 months.
Why it matters: Untested failover usually fails at the worst possible moment.
Checks 4 to 12 unlock with the form above
Including HA and failover, indexing, TempDB configuration, security, encryption, monitoring and licensing efficiency.
We deliver this as a fixed-price health check with a prioritised remediation plan. No obligation to continue afterwards.