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A pragmatic approach to database consulting |
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After fifteen years of building software and managing systems, Fred R. Sobotka started FRS Consulting, Inc. to help businesses get the most out of DB2 UDB For Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Fred is an IBM-certified DB2 administrator and application developer who can help you design your database, migrate data from other systems, install and configure DB2, train in-house DBAs, and develop SQL and SQL PL applications. FRS Consulting will work with your IT staff, business analysts, executives, or alongside other consultants to accomplish your objectives. Consulting engagements can be carried out onsite anywhere in the world, or remotely from our headquarters in Portland, Oregon, USA. Before starting this practice in 2005, Fred Sobotka spent five years as the chief database administrator of several 24x7 databases that served as the beating heart of a multimillion dollar corporation. As a client of FRS Consulting, you will have access to the real-world experience and best practices that kept production DB2 instances running around the clock without a single reboot for months at a time. FRS Consulting's network of experienced consulting partners and IBM technical experts are also available to bring the best possible resources to your project. |
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Even when an IT shop has a handle on managing their databases, short-term projects still arise that can overwhelm the limited resources of the DBA team. It might be a corporate audit that requires numerous complicated queries and reports to be created, or an immediate need to map and import data from older systems. With years of nuts-and-bolts DBA experience serving different types of users across the enterprise, FRS Consulting can quickly jump in and serve as a temporary extension of your team's resources when the project scope and completion deadline will not budge. |
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Applying best practices with less pain |
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Very few IT managers believe that their databases and data-driven applications are running perfectly, and those that do are probably not looking hard enough. The rest are wrestling with challenges coming at them from many directions: denormalization, dirty data, overindexing, poorly written SQL, and improper DBMS resource allocation, just to name a few. It is also not uncommon for applications to query the database in a manner that makes your system vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. FRS Consulting will work with your team to diagnose and correct these and other problems with minimal disruption to your production environment. |
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Exploiting open source tools |
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Several pieces of open source software have proven themselves to be very capable of assisting with common database administration tasks, and FRS Consulting believes that a pragmatic DBA should adopt and use these tools to their fullest capability. Our consultants and partners can help your team get up to speed using popular tools such as CVS, Subversion, Ant, Eclipse, and the Apache HTTP Server to better manage DB2 in your shop. |
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