As a Microsoft Certified Gold partner and Oracle partner, Scotland Online recognises your database server hosting requirements. Your database is at the heart of your web application, it is therefore essential that you choose a hosting provider that is familiar with how to set up and maintain databases at their peak performance and security levels.

Scotland Online's team of database administrators and system engineers are highly skilled in the maintenance, monitoring and tuning of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL clustered and non-clustered environments.

If you opt for our advanced monitoring services, we will check for any resource and capacity issues and bottlenecks. Our internal systems will alert on unusual database activity such as long running query results or high CPU usage. Monitoring will typically include:

• Database processes and listeners
• Buffer and Library Cache Hit Ratio
• Full Table Scans
• Memory and Tablespace Usage
• Disk IO
• Reads and Writes per second
• Rollback Contention (Oracle)

In addition, we can also provide backup and patching services.