Database expertise without the theatre.
Data Premise is an Ontario-based database consulting firm built for the unglamorous, high-consequence work behind reliable systems: design, operations, recovery, tuning, migrations and technical accountability.
Production databases should be understandable, recoverable and deliberately operated.
We work at the layer where application behavior meets operational reality.
A database can be technically “up” and still be a business risk. Slow queries, brittle backups, unclear ownership, unsafe upgrades, undocumented failover and capacity surprises usually surface when the system is under pressure.
Data Premise focuses on making database environments easier to reason about and safer to operate. That can mean designing a new data platform from ground zero, stabilizing an inherited estate, extending an internal team with senior DBA support, or owning the recurring operational work as a managed service.
Our core platform focus is IBM Db2 LUW, Microsoft SQL Server and Google Cloud SQL, with PostgreSQL and MySQL commonly appearing in cloud and modernization work.
Evidence before change
Observe workload and risk first. Do not “tune” by folklore.
Recovery is operational
A backup is only useful if the restore path is understood and tested.
Design for the team
The best architecture is one the operating team can actually support.
Leave clarity behind
Runbooks, decisions and ownership should survive the engagement.
Senior database capability, applied where it creates leverage.
We work with application teams, infrastructure teams, cloud teams, IT leaders and internal DBAs. The model can be collaborative or fully managed depending on the environment.
Extend a team
Add experienced database capacity without immediately hiring a full internal function.
Get a second opinion
Validate architecture, migration plans, recovery posture or a persistent performance issue.
Deliver a change
Plan and execute an upgrade, migration, consolidation or resilience improvement.
Operate continuously
Put monitoring, maintenance, incident handling and optimization on a defined cadence.