What our SQL Server clients say

Database corruption is horrible. Thank goodness for Steve.

I have been working in I.T. for 30+ years and rarely have I come across an individual as honest, helpful and resourceful as Steve. I was faced with corruption to a large database where the only available backup was out of date. Steve was an invaluable resource. His knowledge, manner, sense of urgency and availability make him a pleasure to work with. Steve will be my go-to SQL expert in the future. I will not hesitate to recommend Stedman Solutions.

Thank you so much.

We contacted Steve when we were in desperate need of repair on a corrupted SQL database. After dealing with a couple of other vendors without success, we found Steve (Stedman Solutions) through a Google search that showed some promising reviews and reached out to discuss our issue. This turned out to be the best possible decision. Not only did he connect right away with us, he set realistic expectations and pricing. Steve and his team began work almost immediately and stayed in constant contact throughout the entire process. It is clear that Steve and Derrick are in the top 1% in their market. The end result was a 99% recovery of the corruption, and the remining 1% was irrelevant and not needed. Out database performs as good or better now than it did before the corruption. We would not hesitate to recommend Steve, Derrick and the rest of the team to anyone in need of the services that Stedman Solutions offers. They are worth every penny.

We were having trouble with incorrect pageid errors only when running backup and restore operations on a certain file. I spent hours trying to resolve the issue to no avail. I ran across one of Steve’s blog posts in my research. His article emphatically stated to *NOT* do all the things I had just done. So I reached out to him to see if he could help. He responded quickly. Within minutes I had him on a remote session on the server and in minutes he completed what I was working hours on. Steve really knows his stuff. I’m keeping his contact info close by. When your SQL DB goes belly up, knowing a guy like Steve is like gold.

We were in a bind, our clients are a manufacturing facility with 1000+ workers heavily reliant on their ERP system to run their operations. Their products are highly sensitive and require tracking each transaction for compliance purposes so this basically means manufacturing stops if the ERP stops… And we had a major SQL DB failure. Almost 2 full days of production was lost, high cost, high pressure and high stress. The hardware was not optimal, which didn’t help for time constraints and we were facing DBCC failures that just simply were not documented (or at least google had no results). We scoured the web for hints and tricks to help solve this issue and came across stevestedman.com and submitted a request for consultation, not knowing what to expect. Steve and Derrick were fantastic, they were able to pinpoint the issue within a very short timeframe and helps us get back up and running. Their expertise and specialist knowledge in this area of database corruption is by far the best I have ever seen. A big KUDOS to you both and a big THANK YOU for fast and quick response.

Stedman Solutions were no less than amazing!

We were in a major bind; we had corruption in a SQL Database and all kinds of finger pointing from my software and hardware vendors. From one of my vendors “ …here is a Microsoft paper on how to fix this error”. I was at the end of the rope.

The corruption had been occurring for an unknown period of time, then it completely died! (all the backups were corrupt for who knows how long). Steve and team went to work immediately and worked virtually non-stop until the problem was resolved.

We had no data loss and very little business time down.

GREAT JOB, and highly recommended!

Steve is the most reliable and efficient DBA I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He has bailed me out of number of SQL emergencies, and seems ready to drop everything to help his clients. I cannot say enough about his professionalism and work ethic. After a dreaded crypto attack he spent his Sunday afternoon making sure we would be up and running by early Monday morning sticking with us till the last details were taken care of. Not only will he help you tackle big jobs at a moment’s notice he will keep you constantly informed on his progress and when finished, break down the steps he took to help us but to also see what we can do in the future to save ourselves. I keep his number close by and I sleep better because of it.

Steve is your SQL guy. I have been an IT solutions provider for over 25 years and I have worked with many professionals and Steve is one of the best. I had a client with an old SQL 2005 server and database with some major corruption. Before I came onboard, my client had been searching for a “SQL Professional” for almost a year working with a database that would surely not mount if the server was restarted. Steve Stedman came to the rescue and worked (almost non stop) until the database was usable. Steve kept me in the loop at all stages of the repair. I could not have asked for anyone better. Steve really is “The Man”.

Steve was my SQL guardian angel! I had a SQL emergency that I was stuck on for 7 hours; Steve was able to respond to my request right away and jump on a call with me. He was very gracious to give me a consultation with tips before diving into the server. As he went through my sever, we were able to identify the issue and resolve it in 20 mins! My server came back online and business continued as usual. Steve is amazing and highly recommended!

Thank you again!

We are moving our SaaS offering from one cloud provider to another and took the opportunity to evaluate our database performance and security ahead of the move. Steve and team worked with us to do an assessment of current state and suggest changes that would both make the move easier as well as improve the performance of our overall application. The team is very knowledgeable and easy to work with. What I liked most is that unlike a typical consultant, they did not just make recommendations, present them and leave; they worked with us to implement the recommendations in our test and production environments and followed up to make sure they had the desired effects. We will be working with Steve’s team in the future to ensure our database is always in tip top shape.

As a community health center with many competing priorities and limited resources, we sought out Stedman Solutions for help with optimizing, maintaining, and upgrading our aging SQL infrastructure. We’ve engaged with Steve and Derrick for several SQL-related projects, including an initial assessment and optimization, and a “forklift” upgrade to a newer version of SQL required by one of our software vendors – and we couldn’t be happier to work with them.

Each project we’ve worked with them on has been a great experience for us – they are consummate professionals, providing very detailed scope-of-work proposals and taking the time to explain it all in as much or as little detail as you need, so you know exactly what to expect. And perhaps most importantly (and a rarity with many consulting professionals these days), they say exactly what they’ll do, and do exactly what they say. Thoroughness and follow-through are never a concern when working with them on a project.

We feel quite fortunate to have Stedman Solutions available as our SQL expert partners, and we can’t recommend them highly enough!

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!

We were very thankful to have the Stedman crew help with our SQL Migration. The amount of planning, automation, and pre-migration best practice configurations ensured that everything went very smooth. Steve and Derrick were very responsive and checked in multiple times post migration to ensure everything was running as expected. We really appreciate having SQL experts in our corner who are willing to provide us with expertise, guidance, and problem resolution whenever the need arises.

Over the past 20 years, my software company has worked with a several DBAs; many private contractors, many as part of a firm that delivers DBA resources. Some were good, some not so much, some would move on to other opportunities. As you can imagine, investing time and resources into someone only to have them not prove out, especially given the learning curve our demands require, is a painful experience. Enter Steve Stedman. Several years back he came recommended by a trusted developer partner, and I knew within minutes of talking to him that first time, we’d found our DBA. 5+ years on, Steve only continues to exceed my expectations in every regard; support, responsiveness, knowledge and willingness to always help. He’s become such a trusted partner in fact that I rely on him to help us design products and best practice procedures that have directly resulted in new sales and customer retention. I have never come across someone with more DBA expertise or professionalism. I cannot recommend Steve highly enough.