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Oracle & SQL Server Databases, Expertly Managed 24/7

Advanced SMG keeps mission-critical databases fast, secure, and recoverable — with managed services, data engineering, consulting, and staff augmentation from senior engineers. Headquartered in Atlanta. Trusted nationwide.

Senior Database Talent, On Your Team This Week

Skip the six-month hiring cycle. Vetted Oracle DBAs, SQL Server DBAs, and data engineers — embedded in your team on contract, contract-to-hire, or project terms.

Turn Raw Data Into Decisions

Modern pipelines, warehouses, and analytics foundations — built by engineers who also run production databases, so your platform is fast on day one and stable on day 1,000.

Senior engineers only HIPAA · SOX · PCI aware Atlanta HQ · Nationwide

When your database goes down, everything goes down. That's why organizations across healthcare, finance, logistics, and SaaS trust Advanced SMG with the systems they can't afford to lose.

15+Years of database
expertise
Who we are

The Senior Database Team You Can't Hire Fast Enough

Great DBAs are scarce, expensive, and booked. Advanced SMG solves that — a bench of senior Oracle and SQL Server engineers behind your environment for a fraction of the cost of building one in-house: monitoring around the clock, patching before vulnerabilities bite, and tuning before users feel the slowdown.

Fully managed or co-managed with your team. Project-based when you need a migration done right. Embedded in your org chart when you need a person, not a provider.

What we do

One Partner for the Full Database Lifecycle

Oracle Managed Services

Around-the-clock administration, patching, tuning, and recovery for Oracle 11g through 23ai — on-prem, OCI, AWS, or Azure.

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SQL Server Managed Services

Proactive management of SQL Server 2012–2022 and Azure SQL: Always On availability, performance tuning, and bulletproof backups.

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Data Engineering

Pipelines, warehouses, and lakehouse platforms that turn scattered data into trusted, decision-ready assets.

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Database Consulting

Health checks, performance rescues, HA/DR design, and migration roadmaps — findings you can act on, not a binder that gathers dust.

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Staff Augmentation

Senior DBAs, data engineers, and architects on your team in days — contract, contract-to-hire, or full project pods.

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Not sure where to start?

A free assessment tells you exactly where your environment stands.

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How we work

From First Look to Long-Term Uptime

01

Assess

A free, no-obligation review of your environment: performance, backups, security posture, and single points of failure. You get a written findings summary either way.

02

Stabilize

We close the urgent gaps first — verified backups, tested recovery, current patches, real monitoring with a human on the other end.

03

Optimize

Query and index tuning, capacity right-sizing, and license-aware configuration that makes systems faster and often cheaper to run.

04

Evolve

Upgrades, cloud migrations, and a data roadmap reviewed with you quarterly — so the platform grows ahead of the business, not behind it.

99.9%Uptime target across managed environments
24/7/365Monitoring with senior engineers on call
200+Databases under management
15 minCritical-issue response

Why Teams Choose Advanced SMG

Senior engineers only

Your issues are handled by people who've run production at scale — not a tier-one script.

Proactive by design

We fix at 2 PM what would have paged you at 2 AM. Monitoring, patching, and tuning happen before incidents, not after.

Flexible engagement

Fully managed, co-managed, fixed-scope projects, or talent embedded in your team. Start one way, change anytime.

Security & compliance minded

Least-privilege access, encrypted connections, audit trails, and HIPAA-, SOX-, and PCI-aware practices as the default.

Atlanta local, national reach

Onsite across the metro when it matters; remote-first delivery everywhere from Charlotte to Houston to anywhere.

Straight answers

Plain-English reporting, honest recommendations — including "you don't need that" — and no surprise invoices.

Industries That Run on Our Databases

See How We Serve Your Industry

Atlanta Roots. Nationwide Reach.

Headquartered in Atlanta with onsite coverage across the metro — and remote-first managed services for clients in Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and across the country. Wherever your servers live, our monitoring already does.

Questions We Hear Every Week

Day-to-day administration, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery management, patching, security hardening, performance tuning, and regular health reporting — for Oracle, SQL Server, or both. You choose fully managed or co-managed with your internal team.

Both, and the hybrid in between. We manage Oracle on OCI, AWS RDS, and Azure, and SQL Server on Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and AWS — alongside traditional on-prem and colocation environments.

Yes — co-managed is one of our most popular models. We take nights, weekends, and overflow, or own specific systems while your team owns the rest. Your staff gets senior backup instead of burnout.

Monitoring and emergency coverage can typically begin within days of signed paperwork; full onboarding usually completes inside two to three weeks. Staff augmentation placements often start the same week.

A single senior DBA in the Atlanta market typically runs well into six figures fully loaded — and still sleeps, takes vacations, and can't cover two platforms at once. Managed services deliver a full senior team, around the clock, usually for less than one salary. We'll show you the math in your assessment.

Absolutely. Most of our delivery is remote by design, with clients across the Southeast, Texas, and nationwide — and onsite visits arranged whenever a project calls for them.

Find Out Where Your Databases Really Stand

A senior engineer — not a salesperson — will review your environment and give you a straight answer about what's solid and what's at risk. Free, and yours to keep either way.

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