SQL Server consulting for the databases your business actually runs on
Microsoft SQL Server tends to sit under the systems nobody is allowed to break: ERP, finance, operations, the reporting stack the leadership team reads. That’s usually why we get the call — the instance has been running for years, the person who built it is gone, and now nightly jobs overrun into business hours or a report that took seconds takes minutes.
DEV3LOPCOM, LLC is an Austin, Texas consultancy, 100% onshore, founded by a former Tableau Software Professional Services consultant. We work on SQL Server as the source of truth behind analytics — which means we care about both sides: the engine’s health and the reporting workloads that depend on it.
How we run an engagement
Every project follows the same arc: assess, design, build, hand off. The assessment reads the evidence SQL Server already keeps — Query Store history, wait statistics, index usage DMVs, blocking chains — and reviews your backup, recovery, and availability posture against what the business actually requires. The design phase turns that into a written, sequenced plan: which indexes to add or drop, which procedures to rewrite, whether an upgrade or a move to Azure SQL or AWS RDS makes sense, and what the rollback story is. Then we build, test against production-representative data, and hand off with documentation and a session for your team.
Problems we fix repeatedly
- Parameter sniffing: a stored procedure compiles a plan for one parameter value and reuses it for wildly different ones. Depending on the case, the fix is
OPTION (RECOMPILE), plan guides, or restructuring the procedure — not rebooting the server every Friday. - Index sprawl. Years of “add an index” tickets leave tables with a dozen overlapping indexes that slow every write. We consolidate using actual usage stats, not guesswork.
- Implicit conversions from mismatched data types (an
NVARCHARparameter against aVARCHARcolumn) silently turning index seeks into scans. - Nightly ETL windows that no longer fit the night. We rework SSIS packages and job chains, or replace them with modern pipeline patterns that load incrementally instead of reprocessing everything.
- Reporting queries competing with transactions. Readable secondaries in an Always On availability group, snapshot isolation, or a dedicated reporting database — the right answer depends on your licensing and latency tolerance, and we’ll say which.
Why dev3lop
Our background is enterprise-scale data work: a high-availability Tableau Server migration for GoPro, streaming data infrastructure across 80+ campuses for ExxonMobil, and pipeline consolidation at Lever that eliminated redundant SQL and saved the team an estimated 22,000 hours a year. We know what it looks like when a database has to serve both operations and analytics without either one failing, and we build toward that. When the project’s endpoint is dashboards, our Tableau consulting team closes the loop from engine to executive.
Talk to us before the next slowdown
The cheapest time to fix SQL Server is before the quarter-end close exposes it. Engagements usually start with a short assessment and end with a plan you can act on immediately. Contact us with the symptom — a slow report, a fragile job, an upgrade you’ve been deferring — and we’ll tell you what it takes to fix it properly.