Relational Database Platforms
25+ years of hands-on administration and tuning across commercial enterprise engines and open-source & embedded platforms — not just the two or three names most consultancies default to.
Commercial & Enterprise Platforms
Oracle Database
Query tuning and execution-plan analysis, login-trigger and locking incident diagnosis, and production recovery work — including corrupted-datafile recovery under NOARCHIVELOG mode.
Sybase (ASE)
Ongoing 3rd-line escalation support for Sybase database incidents, delivered alongside Oracle and Unix systems support in managed-services engagements.
IBM DB2
Administration and performance tuning experience on DB2, alongside Oracle and Sybase, across enterprise Unix-based systems.
Microsoft SQL Server
Query optimization, indexing strategy, and performance tuning for enterprise SQL Server workloads.
Open-Source & Lightweight Platforms
PostgreSQL
Index design, query planning, and pgvector-backed vector search for AI-powered applications — including the embedding-similarity matching behind SPAM Escudo.
MySQL
Index analysis and query optimization that cut production query times from 30+ seconds down to milliseconds for Thermomix recipe lookups, delivered for Mindcurv.
SQLite
Lightweight, embedded database experience for local-first applications and low-footprint deployment scenarios.
Microsoft Access
Legacy desktop database support, plus migration paths from Access into more scalable server-based platforms.
Working across this many engines for 25+ years also means picking up platforms not listed here. If yours isn’t on this page, get in touch — there’s a good chance we’ve worked with it.