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Stedman Solutions/Steve Stedman Review

Stedman Solutions/Steve Stedman saved our SQL, and so much more. Our network will forever be in his debt.

Fresh out of school, I took over our 15 workstations, 2-3 servers, and the small IT Roles at a small business. We quickly grew, and merged with another company, we became a very complicated, 100 workstation, 25 servers, all sorts of new security to deal with, and just plain overwhelmed. As we put the pieces together, the only puzzle we couldn’t solve was our SQL DB. We were at the point where we were getting 10 unexpected, inconsistent, errors and lockups. We needed to reboot our service right away.

Steve came in and stopped that on day one. Within the first couple days, he had a well thought out, well organized presentation, explaining all of the potential flaws we had in our settings and setup, and a plan to fix every one of them. On the server side, with his great product, DB Health Monitor. He built this program and he gives it out. Charges for his expertise, which is well worth every penny. He also advised us on new hardware which proved to improve performance even further. Pointed out every bottleneck and how to fix it.  I have a good understanding of how hard drives work, as well as NAS and SAN, and how to pick a good one. Steve taught me a few things that changes the way I purchase NAS/SAN Devices. We are running on a Virtual machine with connected storage on a NAS Device. He advised on a new SAN, then he helped to find a few options to recommend, and explained why. This will improve my network with every upgrade I get in the future.

In the next couple days, after making changes, he utilized his program to show us the wait times. We went from an average of 6 million X (Whatever time measurement he was using) to 600,000, and less. It was more than noticeable on the user side too. Overnight we went from 20+ Complaints a day to 0, regarding this issue.

Extremely professional and a pleasure to work with.

Thanks again Steve!