RDS2 – All-in-one and Unified Solution for Databases

Database Administration tasks need to be performed at various levels from planning to deployment and maintenance. During these various phases not only database related tasks but also various entities such as hardware, networks and system level entities are taken care of. RDS2 provides all-in-one unified solution to ensure proper decision is taken at every level for appropriate execution. These services include:

1. Requirement Analysis for your database : RDS2 helps you find out the servers and disk requirement, operating system platform, design network architecture for databases, other database related administration tools and software that are most suitable as per your operational needs and IT budget. RDS2 installs and configures database, multiplexes data files, transaction log files and control files across disks and network.

2. Designing Database : RDS2 designs logical and physical structure for your database to ensure that tables in database are Normalized and have proper Indexing. Help application developer understand the database structure and write the optimized and least cost effective query to fetch data.

3. Performance Monitoring and Database Tuning : Once the database is in production environment, RDS2 helps you continuously monitor database for its optimal performance, detect and overcome routine issues or errors, performance bottlenecks, security loopholes and other issues that may harm database performance.

4. Resource Monitoring : RDS2 makes sure that all resources are utilized properly and are available to validated users as and when required. For example, we can find out the ten most CPU consuming SQL statements and optimize them for maximum utilization. Resource utilization can be restricted on a user basis as well.

5. Health Check : RDS2 carries out health check activities o n a regular basis that give details of

• Hardware (available disk space, disk fragmentation, etc.) and overall performance (CPU utilization, memory consumption, IO contentions if any).
• Operating System monitoring (of all the event logs).
• Database Server Instance (database services, connectivity and database server logs).
• Database Monitoring (data files, transaction log files, data blocking, dead locks, indexing).

6. Backup and Recovery Services : Database backup is the primary step towards database availability in case of database failure or system crash. RDS2 helps you design the Zero-impact Backup solution for your database. This service includes backup policies, backup scheduling and backup verifications that are designed in such a way that they don't affect database performance.

Apart from these basic and most crucial database services, RDS2 provides various services that include :

• Database Upgrades and Migrations.
• Implementing Advanced Database Security.
• Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
• Reporting and Analysis Services.