Database Management

Optimized Performance: Conducted rigorous tests with complex workloads and data shapes to identify and eliminate bottlenecks, ensuring robust and efficient systems.

SQL Mastery: Enhanced query performance by creating indexes, analyzing execution plans, and leveraging query store insights for actionable improvements.

Index Maintenance Excellence: Implemented standardized index maintenance plans to ensure database health and performance consistency.

Proactive System Monitoring: Utilized SQL Sentry to oversee system performance, including in-depth memory pressure analysis (PLE, Memory Grants, IO Reads, Compilations/Recompilations).

Log Shipping Expertise: Collaborated with client IT/DBA teams to configure daily log shipping using Azure Blob containers, ensuring stability and reliability across secondary systems. Successfully managed over 400+ log-shipping configurations with meticulous daily monitoring.

SQL Server Installation & Configuration: Set up SQL Server 2017 on Azure and local cloud systems, adhering to industry standards for performance and security.

High Availability Configurations: Configured clusters and Always On functionality to maximize uptime and resilience.

Efficient Database Migrations: Seamlessly migrated SQL 2012 to 2017 and 2017 to 2019, achieving minimal downtime (<2 hours) for over 100 clients, including databases ranging from 2GB to 4TB.

Streamlined Patch Management: Planned, tested, and executed Windows patch deployments for 200+ servers, including active/passive and primary/secondary/DR database servers, completing the project within one month for 15,000+ databases.

Disaster Recovery Champion: Implemented and maintained disaster recovery (DR) setups for 150+ database servers, ensuring business continuity and data security.

Backup & Recovery Leadership: Designed industry-standard backup plans tailored to client needs, guaranteeing high availability and zero data loss in case of failure. Conducted daily database recovery checks and validated data integrity using DBCC without disrupting production.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnered with development, installation, and migration teams to ensure seamless database access, user administration, and role-based security.

Database Automation: Automated database creation, backup, restoration, and upgrades, while establishing proactive alert systems to monitor database health.