For when a specific SQL Server performance problem is blocking progress and you don’t have time to experiment. This is a targeted investigation into one concrete issue: timeouts, blocking, runaway CPU, or bad plans, to find the actual cause fast. The goal is answers you can act on immediately, not broad recommendations.

For teams who want fewer performance surprises over time. This is a broad review of your SQL Server environment to identify systemic risks, concurrency pressure points, and fragile patterns. The goal is to understand how your workload behaves today—and which problems are likely to surface next—so you can act before they become incidents.

For teams tired of guessing what to tune next. This retainer gives you ongoing senior SQL Server performance judgment: what matters, what doesn’t, and what to ignore. Monthly review, live access, async help, and emergency backup—so performance work stops being reactive, random, or random luck.

This is the smallest block that works like part-time senior SQL Server help. It allows for hands-on tuning, iteration, validation, and course correction across multiple issues. Best if you already know performance work is needed but don’t want a one-off engagement.

For teams that want sustained hands-on SQL Server performance work. This supports deeper tuning, refactoring, repeated testing, and collaboration over time. Ideal when performance work competes with internal priorities and needs dedicated senior attention.

For long-running initiatives or teams that want sustained senior involvement across performance, architecture, and delivery. This is not exploratory work—it’s a commitment to ongoing execution with priority access.