Consulting Philosophy
Approach
My goal as a consultant is to help you solve your problems and help you acquire the necessary knowledge and background you need to keep solving your own problems.
I prefer to take the approach of teaching people to fish - rather than giving them fish. Consequently, my goal as a consultant is to leave you more indepent and capable than when you found me.
Auditing Philosophy
The Importance of Audits
Audits help organizations determine how secure, stable, and efficient their SQL Server deployments are. They also play a key part in capacity planning, and in determining the viability of new endeavors or business initiatives.
Simply stated: Audits help save money, ensure continued success, and facilitate end-user satisfaction and confidence.
Leveraging the Value of Audits
Audits are only beneficial if the findings are presented in a meaningful way.
Especially when something fails part of the Audit.
Problems discovered during an audit either represent a lack of knowledge about industry-standard best practices, or the lack of experience and expertise needed to successfully implement that practice without succumbing to a pitfall. As such, my audits don't present you with a simple pass/fail, or "x out of 5 stars" report.
Instead, my audits identify which areas of your deployment need help, and then provide you with the knowledge, guidance, and skills needed to remedy those problems against your own, unique, environment and business needs.
The Findings Document
Each Audit is accompanied by a Findings Document. The main purpose of the Findings Document is to identify problem areas, and then provide you with clear, concise, and well-documented information tailored to your environment that helps you understand the importance of any areas of concern while providing you with potential solutions, recommendations, and insights into the best ways to remedy concerns or shortcomings.
The best thing about the Findings Document is that it helps present a very clear roadmap that will take your current SQL Server implementation from where it to a best practices deployment that adheres to Industry Best Practices for Security, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, and Extensibility.
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Findings Documents
Findings Documents are a road-map that is designed to take your SQL Server deployment from where ever it is to a best-practices deployment.
Sample Findings Documents
Check out the sample findings documents listed below. These are actual findings documents furnished to real clients - though any confidential or identifying information has been removed or <scrubbed out> to ensure confidentiality.
