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Contract SQL Server DBA with 25+ years in production environments, including 5TB+ datasets in the NHS and a 565-million-row reporting pipeline tuned to run alongside live systems. I help teams with: - Always On Availability Groups and failover clustering - Replication troubleshooting (clients have called me in for out-of-hours fixes) - Performance tuning, T-SQL and stored procedure design - Backup, disaster recovery and SQL Server health checks - Azure SQL and data pipelines: hands-on with Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric (pipelines and notebooks) - Ongoing part-time remote DBA support Recent client feedback: "Excellent dba." Message me your SQL Server version and your main problem, and I'll tell you plainly whether I can help.