Your SQL environment depends on a few people who understand it
Your most critical systems run on SQL Server. But everything about that environment lives with a few people. When they're sick, on leave, or gone, you don't just lose a resource. You lose all knowledge about your own SQL environment.
This is what that actually looks like
You can't hire fast enough.
There aren't many DBAs left. So you call a consultant, expensive, unfamiliar with your environment, and available on their schedule, not yours.
When they leave, you're back where you started.
A few people. One point of failure. Nothing left when they're gone.
Nobody else can step in.
Every SQL question goes to the same desk. Not because the team won't help, but because nothing about the environment exists anywhere they can reach.
What it looks like when the knowledge is shared
Same environment, same team. The difference is where the knowledge lives.
The team you have is enough
With DB24, the daily work of SQL Server is handled on its own. The people already on your payroll run the environment, on your schedule, not a consultant's.
No resignation sends you back to square one
With DB24, every change to the environment is recorded as it happens, who made it, when, and exactly what was run. The history lives in the system, not in someone's memory.
Whoever picks it up can finish it
With DB24, any technician can see the state of every instance and act on it. The work stops queueing at one desk.
How Soltak AB broke the cycle
Where they started
Soltak AB had the same problem. One person carrying the entire SQL environment. No documentation or knowledge anyone else could rely on.
The change they made
In 2019 they replaced their DBA consultant with DB24. Today their SQL environment is managed by their own systems administrators, no specialist dependency, no single point of failure.
What it changed
The difference isn't just uptime. It's that their entire organization now has access to knowledge that used to live in one person's head. That's not a technical win. That's an organizational win.
If availability is a high priority, you can't be without a product like DB24. Otherwise you become very person-dependent.
Juhani Wendt
Service Owner
Environment managed by their own systems administrators. No specialist required.