PCA's knowledge of database engineering dates back to the Clipper, FoxPro, Gupta and DBase days — where many of the capabilities and techniques we use to address our Clients' business needs today were simply unavailable or impractical.  Our deep experience with database design and implementation informs every recommendation we make, and enables PCA to provide our Clients with solid, cost-effective solutions and tangible returns.

PCA offers a number of specialized SQL Server engineering services that span database design, development, optimization, troubleshooting, audits and ongoing maintenance and support.  We will listen to your business needs and concerns, evaluate your existing SQL Server database(s), and recommend services and an approach that is appropriate to your needs and priorities.

PCA provides custom SQL Server analysis, design and development services for SQL Server 6.5, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, and SQL Server 2008.  Today's business demands a different kind of distributed SQL Database solution. Performance, scalability, and reliability are essential. Cost and time-to-market are always critical. PCA's expert SQL Server Consulting services can help you establish a strong SQL Server database foundation for maintaining enterprise-scale application quality. Properly designed, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide robust data modeling, data management and business analysis capabilities that allow your organization to support business-critical operations and adapt quickly to evolving business needs.

In our experience, the single, largest factor to SQL Server performance, reliability, data integrity, security, and the ability to generate the types of reports and data analytics that are necessary to drive business decisions, is the underlying SQL Server schema design. Our expert SQL Server consultants will help you identify issues with your SQL schema design that impact important areas of your business — and the effort required to maintain and extend your database in a cost-effective manner over time. Our SQL consultants have in-depth knowledge and experience with a wide variety of transactional and reporting SQL designs, and can provide you with a detailed understanding of SQL design and implementation issues that most often impede business needs. 

If you already have a Microsoft SQL Server database solution up and running, but are experiencing reliability, speed or efficiency problems, our SQL Server Consultants can help you discover the root cause of the problems and provide solutions sets that meet your budget requirements and business needs.   We can help you avoid spending money on efforts that provide marginal returns, and focus your investments on core design and engineering methods that establish a strong and extensible SQL Server foundation.  Learn more about PCA's standard SQL Server Engineering Audit Service.

Having a perfectly designed SQL Server database can not offer much value to your business absent a well-designed application to manage the data.  Once we have successfully completed the planning and design stage of a SQL Server-based solution, PCA can provide prototype application design services and/or data structures to test and validate of the SQL Server solution.   Our time-tested Prototype Application Design service is designed to mitigate technical risks, accelerate the formation of a project team, and determine the most cost-effective approach to building out the system in a manner that is compatible with your business needs and priorities — all before development begins.

PCA Prototypes are fast and inexpensive; they reflect the high quality of our SQL Consultant's design and programming techniques, and they provide the confidence that the project is on the right track, properly scoped, and within reliable budget and schedule estimates.  Prototypes also provide and source-code to drive the development phase.  Learn more about PCA's SQL Server Prototype Application Design Service.