Hi guys,

I had many troubles of finding a company who provides Remote Database
Administration. I reviewed quite a lot of services and finally got to
know about a company who has done some work and are kind of supporting
enterprise customers with their huge databases. I dont wanted to
provide info about the research i have done, email me if you would like
to know more.  I can defenitely give you my honest opinions in the
segment.

They offer 24x7 premium services to augment any team of database
administrators - to ensure round-the-clock support.

their services include:

   * Database status monitoring
   * Collect performance and resource metrics
   * Automated performance decisions of collected metrics
   * Notification of system alerts due to performance, Availability
and Resources
   * Scan system log files
   * Verify Backups
   * Professional DBA support
   * 24x7 DBA monitoring and 99.9% uptime of data
   * Daily and Weekly report generation
   * Onsite Installation and Technical DB support

their focused offering in DB2 DBA services include:

   * Database Design:
        1. Schema design and Schema design changes
        2. Conceptual data design (ER - Diagrams)
        3. Logical design and Physical design
        4. Normalization of Tables

   * Tuning:
        1. Designing Locking and Concurrency strategy
        2. Snapshot Monitoring and Event Monitoring Techniques
        3. Tuning Database Parameters
        4. Performance Monitoring through db2pm
        5. SQL Monitoring through db2explain utility
        6. Explaining different logs like db2diag. log, db2 alerts,
db2 traces, db2 dump files and db2 trap files for better performance

   * Installation and Configuration:
        1. Installati
on of db2 on different platforms like Linux, Aix, Sun Solaris, and
OS/390.
        2. Resolving the Installation issues for better performance.
        3. Capacity Planing
   * Backups and Recovery:
        1. Crash Recovery, Version Recovery, Roll forward recovery
with Unix built-in scripts.
        2. Problem analysis and resolution activities in all aspects
of the recovery of the database.
        3. Proven recovery strategies for better recovery of the
databases.
        4. Automated scripts for all backups and recoveries.

   * Trend analysis Report:
        1. Through automated scripts, we will maintain a close watch
on all aspects of database functionalities like Bufferpool Monitoring,
Tablespace monitoring, on different configuration parameters, hit
ratios...etc
        2. Automated Scripts for all Trend analysis factors with
different colors to show the priority or criticality of the system
parameters.
        3. Automated Reports will be generated and sent to concerned
people through emails.