SQL Server Health Check
A focused, fixed-price assessment of one Microsoft SQL Server instance, with prioritized findings and a concise remediation plan. No open-ended hourly engagement and no surprise invoice.
A focused assessment with a defined scope
The SQL Server Health Check is designed for organizations that want a practical second opinion on the health of an existing Microsoft SQL Server environment without committing to an open-ended consulting engagement.
Red Raptor Solutions reviews the instance using well-established diagnostic tooling, including Brent Ozar’s First Responder Kit and dbatools where appropriate, combined with manual review and professional judgment. The goal is not to hand you a raw diagnostic dump. The goal is to identify what matters, explain why it matters, and give you a prioritized plan for what to address first.
The assessment is performed as a defined-scope engagement for a fixed price of $800. No configuration changes or remediation work are performed as part of the health check.
What’s included
The SQL Server Health Check includes:
- Assessment of one Microsoft SQL Server instance
- Review of SQL Server version, edition, build level, and key configuration settings
- Review of backup configuration, recent backup history, and recovery-related concerns visible from the instance
- Review of database file layout, storage utilization, growth settings, and capacity concerns
- Review of tempdb configuration and other common instance-level configuration issues
- Review of integrity-check and maintenance practices visible from SQL Server
- Review of significant wait statistics, expensive queries, and other available performance indicators
- Review of indexing observations and high-impact tuning opportunities identified by the diagnostic tools
- Identification of configuration problems, operational risks, and obvious reliability concerns
- A written report summarizing findings and recommendations
- Findings prioritized so you can distinguish urgent issues from lower-priority improvements
- A concise remediation plan describing the recommended next steps
What’s outside the fixed-price scope
To keep the engagement predictable and the price fixed, the SQL Server Health Check does not include:
- Implementation of recommended changes
- Emergency or outage response
- Ongoing database administration or monitoring
- Exhaustive query-by-query performance tuning
- Application code review or application troubleshooting
- Database or application redesign
- High-availability or disaster-recovery architecture projects
- Failover testing or backup restore testing
- Penetration testing, formal security auditing, or compliance certification
- Assessment of additional SQL Server instances unless separately agreed upon
- Changes that require server restarts, application downtime, or production configuration changes
If the assessment identifies an issue that would benefit from additional work, any follow-up engagement will be discussed and priced separately before work begins.