Database Design
Whether your database already exists or needs to be built from scratch, we will analyze and design your database, enhancements, and new functionality to ensure data integrity, data consistency and data usability throughout your organization. The process involves:
- Gathering data requirements from all stakeholders
- Designing table structures
- Designing indexes
- Designing table relationships through primary and foreign keys
A poorly designed database will inevitably cause chronic issues with performance, data integrity and back end reporting inaccuracies. These issues can lead to misinformation and bad decision making if data is poorly structured and mismanaged. If your organization is plagued with data problems, we specialize in re-designing and re-deploying databases.
Database Upgrade
If your existing database resides in an outdated application or an application that no longer supports the volume and growth of your database, we will help you select the best software and will assist with all of your data migration needs.
Database Consolidation and Migration
Many organizations have duplicate and fragmented databases used by different departments. We specialize in database consolidation to reduce duplicate data, increase data integrity and minimize software licensing costs.
Database Integration
A challenge for many companies is the sharing of data between multiple corporate database systems. Contact management systems, financial systems, home grown database systems, and reporting systems all require flow and connectivity to similar datasets. We provide integration services to allow multiple databases within an organization to share and transfer data between databases.
Database Development
Full service database programming is available to support front end web, client server and reporting applications. We specialize in designing and coding the following:
- Store procedures
- Triggers
- User defined functions
- DTS packages
- Custom data integration logic
Database Maintenance and Database Optimization
Managing your database systems is one of the most important aspects of database administration. Imagine losing all of your data in a system failure only to realize after the fact, that proper backups were not in placed. This type of loss can be catastrophic to any organization. We provide analysis and design of the following:
- Disaster recovery planning
- Database maintenance plans
- Replication
- Log shipping
- Security analysis and best practices to ensure your data in protected
- Database disaster recovery testing
We evaluate your current maintenance tasks, make recommendations and build a plan that your staff can manage moving forward. We also assist with testing the disaster recovery plan in a mock failure scenario. When a failure occurs and people are under pressure, it is crucial that they have tested the recovery plan and fine tuned it in advance to ensure a successful recovery.
Database Software Packages and Pricing Analysis
Small, medium, and large organizations require up front cost analysis to determine the best database software and the cost associated with that software. We provide a cost analysis based on the volume of existing data, future data growth, licensing, hardware considerations, client application and web application connection counts to name a few.
TriCalyx offers expert advice and services in several database applications. We can help you with any database application you use and we specialize in the following database applications:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Microsoft Access
Database Security
Database security is critical for protecting not only your corporate data but also your customer’s personal data. We provide analysis of your existing security settings and practices and provide a full recommendation at the database level as well as the application level for protecting your most important asset. Many companies make the mistake of allowing non-essential personnel full administrative access to production databases. We will help you define who should have access to production and how to set up the layers of security to ensure proper access to all database systems. We will establish read-only environments for business users separate from your production environment to prevent unnecessary traffic on key systems.
