Database Design

Gates, NC, North Carolina, MDAC Microsoft Data Access Components

SQL Server 2000 Consulting

To efficiently utilize the full power of your company's data, we'll provide a well-written custom software application tailored for SQL Server's capabilities. Our comprehensive and professional applications give you fast, secure, and convenient access to your data from any location. Whether your employees are on the road, at home, at client locations, or at remote offices, users need the ability to interact with their SQL data anywhere they are. We'll help make this possible over a secure Internet connection. Wouldn't your business benefit from a distributed database application that works equally well at home or elsewhere as it does at your office?

Proven Methodology

Productive Technology, LLC believes our SQL Server application development skills are the highest quality available. With years of experience developing and enhancing SQL Server database applications, we can advise you on the many choices you need to consider, and guide you toward the best choices for your unique situation. You'll have a firm price commitment up front before you hire us. We'll manage all aspects of the effort, and deliver as promised.

SQL Server Application Requirements Analysis

Your Seasoned Business Expert

If you are in the early planning stages of a project, Productive Technology gives you a business expert skilled in onsite enterprise consulting. This expert SQL Server database design consultant has the business acumen to quickly understand your requirements. The consultant will couple those business skills with an intimate knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server technologies to help architect, implement, and deploy the right solutions for your business.

Requirements Specification

Crucial to a project's success is a crystal-clear understanding of the problem to be solved, and the nature of the data being stored. From the "big-picture" architecture, down to the fine details of the implementation, we present solutions in a clear, non-technical document. You review, revise, and approve this functional specification before we begin; it contains all of the information we need to do the job, and allows us to tell you precisely how much the work will cost.

Database Assessment and Review

Pre-Planning Assessment

If you are in the early planning stages of a database system, Productive Technology's SQL Server consultant will review, assess, and present to you an extensive evaluation of business requirements, plans, architectures, and designs of operational systems and environments. This early-stage service allows you to identify and mitigate risks and realize benefits quickly.

Functional Specification Review

If you have already performed a requirements analysis and have developed a functional specification, we'll review, validate, and recommend any actions necessary so you can proceed in confidence and fully understand the costs and risks involved.

Planning, Architecture, and Design

Complex Tasks, Simple Approach

If you need help building a solution from the ground up, our SQL Server consultant will help you create the appropriate technical SQL Server architecture and SQL Server design infrastructure for your application. We are ready to assist your needs at any level, from mentoring to turnkey solutions.

Proof-of-Concept / Prototyping

Rapid Prototypes

Following the planning and design stages, we often augment the functional specification of a SQL Server solution with a prototype. We quickly lay out the data model so you can understand how the system will store the data. A prototype helps mitigate technical risks and allows non-technical persons to contribute to shaping the system while the cost of changes are lowest.

Understandable Technical Presentations

Our superb documentation and presentation skills will accelerate decisions and empower your team to make the right choices for your SQL Server solution. Our experienced consultant will communicate with you in a simple, cost effective way. Very few consultants are both technically-skilled and polished enough in business skills to pull all aspects of a project together. Productive Technology has that combination, and we'll bring your business and technology staff together in an economical, understandable manner.

Optimization and Performance Tuning

Fast, Effective Troubleshooting

If you already have a SQL Server database solution, but it is not as fast, reliable, or efficient as it should be, Productive Technology can identify the cause of the problems and will provide solutions that meet your business needs and fit your budget. Our troubleshooting techniques and performance optimizing skills will help you get the most from your SQL Server.

SQL Server Product Skills

Our SQL Server business consultant will be skilled in SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 6.5, and is prepared to advise you about the new SQL Server 2005 products.

MSDE - Microsoft Database Engine

MSDE Solutions

Productive Technology has extensively designed and developed solutions with MSDE, Microsoft's desktop version of its SQL Server product. MSDE is a fully capable version SQL Server available at no cost when used with our custom solutions. We can advise you on the limitations imposed by this version of SQL Server. If you currently have Microsoft Access applications, and want the performance, security, reliability, and other benefits of SQL Server, MSDE may interest you.

Skilled MSDE Advisors

We can help you convert an Access database to MSDE or SQL Server. Our consultant can clearly explain how MSDE works, so you can understand and make informed decisions.