Night vision for your databases.
Blackcat is an independent database consultancy in North Wales. I make SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Azure data platforms run faster, cost less, and survive the bad night you hope never comes.
What I'm hired for
Most work starts with one of these. Open any of them for the detail.
How it goes
- A call. You tell me what's hurting and what's at stake.
- A look. Read-only access, my own tooling and your real numbers.
- A report. Findings ranked by impact and effort, in plain English.
- The fix. I do the work, or hand it to your team with the scripts.
Nine lives
I build tools for problems I keep meeting on client estates, and give most of them away. A cat gets nine lives; these are mine.
And a few more lives
From LinkedIn
Things I've written about lately. Follow me on LinkedIn for the rest.
Who you'll be working with
I'm Jake Morgan. I've looked after production databases since 2008, and Blackcat is where I take on my own clients.
That's Oracle at Natural Resources Wales, the whole database estate at Bangor University, then managed services at Proact and Coeo, where I'm a Principal DBA looking after enterprise fintech and retail platforms. I've worked across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL, on Linux and Windows, on premises, in Azure and in AWS.
You deal with me directly, from the first call to the last script.