Database Design & Optimization Your data, structured and fast
Slow queries, tangled spreadsheets, or a database designed in a hurry years ago — we design, optimize, migrate, and rescue the data layer your business runs on.
Database services cover design, optimization, repair and migration of the data layer behind your website or app — MySQL and PostgreSQL. A well-designed database is the difference between queries in milliseconds and pages that time out under load. Engagements from $400.
Built to work, not just impress.
The database is where web projects quietly go wrong: a missing index makes pages crawl, a bad schema makes every new feature painful. We design data models that stay fast at scale, untangle legacy databases, and turn spreadsheet chaos into structured systems.
Slow queries fixed
Profiling, indexing, and query rewrites that take reports from minutes to milliseconds.
Schemas designed right
Data models built for how your business actually works — and how it will grow.
Safe migrations
Moving or restructuring live data with verified integrity and rollback plans at every step.
Spreadsheets → systems
That giant Excel file running your operations? We turn it into a proper database with a web interface.
A clear path from brief to launch.
Assessment
Schema review, slow-query log analysis and integrity checks — we find where the pain actually lives.
Design / redesign
Normalized schema, proper indexes and constraints designed for how your app actually queries.
Optimization
Query rewrites, index strategy, caching and configuration tuning with measured before/after timings.
Resilience
Automated backups, recovery drills and monitoring so data loss becomes a non-event.
Everything, itemized.
- Schema design or redesign with documentation
- Slow-query analysis and optimization
- Index strategy with measured improvements
- MySQL ↔ PostgreSQL migrations
- Zero-loss data migrations and cleanups
- Automated backup + tested restore procedure
- Security review: access, encryption, injection surface
- Capacity planning for growth
Made for businesses like yours.
Databases fail quietly, then all at once. The symptoms show up elsewhere — slow pages, timeouts, weird duplicates — while the cause hides in a missing index or a schema that fights the queries. We work from evidence: slow-query logs and execution plans, not guesswork.
We're deliberately bilingual — MySQL and PostgreSQL both — and we recommend on fit, not fashion. Sometimes the answer is boring: your database is fine, your queries aren't. That diagnosis is cheaper than a migration and we'll happily give it.
Almost certainly — slow reports are usually missing indexes or inefficient queries, both very fixable. We'll profile it and show you exactly what's slow.
Yes — deduplication, normalization, and reconciliation are core parts of what we do.
MySQL is ubiquitous and battle-tested for classic web workloads; PostgreSQL brings stronger data integrity, full-text search and JSON handling for complex apps. For most new builds we lean Postgres; for existing MySQL systems, the migration is only worth it when you need what Postgres does better.
Almost always. Index additions, query rewrites and configuration tuning happen live or in seconds-long windows. Bigger schema surgery is rehearsed on a copy and applied in a planned maintenance window.
Business databases: at minimum daily automated backups, kept off-server, with restores actually tested. Busy stores and apps justify hourly or continuous backups. We set this up as standard — untested backups are the most common false comfort in small business IT.
Often, yes — from binary logs, older backups, or careful repair of the corrupted tables. Success depends on acting quickly and not writing over the evidence; stop and call before running repair commands you found on Stack Overflow.