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Bradmark Profesional Services

About Edward Whalen
Principle Consultant
Bradmark Professional Services

Edward Whalen is Chairman, vice-president and Chief Consultant of Performance Tuning Corporation. Prior to Performance Tuning Corp., Mr. Whalen worked at Compaq Computer Corporation in the capacity of OS developer, and then as database performance engineer.

He has extensive experience in database system design and tuning for optimal performance. His career has consisted of hardware, OS, and database development projects for many different companies.

Mr. Whalen has published several books on SQL Server entitled Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administrator’s Companion, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator’s Companion, as well as Three books on the Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Performance Tuning and Optimization, Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days and Oracle Performance Tuning.

In addition, he has worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with Microsoft and Oracle. Mr. Whalen is recognized as a leader in database performance tuning and optimization.



Bradmark Professional Services can help you get the most from your IT investment.

The Engineers at Bradmark Professional Services have extensive experience in system hardware, operating systems and database software. It is this multi-level experience that allows us to help you get the optimal performance from your system.

Our Engineers have written several books on both Oracle and MS SQL Server. Oracle books include; "Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days" MacMillan 1997, "Oracle Performance Tuning and Optimization" MacMillan 1996, one chapter in "Oracle8 Server Unleashed" MacMillan 1998, and currently released "Oracle (9i) Performance Tuning" Addison Wesley 2002.

SQL Server books include "SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Companion" MS Press 1999, "Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Performance Tuning Reference Manual" MS Press 2000, "SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Companion" MS Press 2000 and "SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference" MS Press 2001.

Our Engineers have given presentations at the European Oracle Users Group Conference, IOUG-A, Oracle Open World, and at the national CMG Conference and at SQLPASS

We have participated in or lead benchmarking efforts on TPC-A, TPC-B, TPC-C, TPC-H, and TPC-W benchmarks as well as numerous customer benchmarks. We have diverse backgrounds in both hardware and software design and tuning. Let Bradmark Professional Services put our skills and experience to work for you.


Professional Service Offerings

Installation Services
Bradmark Professional Services will come onsite and install, configure and customize our products for your specific needs. Although installation is not difficult, you might not have the resources to install and configure the Bradmark products. In addition, we will customize the alert thresholds based on your organization's needs and show you how to best use our Bradmark tools in your environment.

Custom Collections
Bradmark Professional Services will take the Surveillance system and create custom collections based on the your in-house applications. These custom collections can be used to monitor the application and provide valuable information as well as allowing alerts to occur if certain situations arise.

Database Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting
The expertise of Bradmark Professional Services can help find, and fix database performance problems both using the Surveillance tools and problems that fall beyond the range of the monitoring capabilities of the tools. Bradmark Professional Services can tune the system from SQL statement tuning, instance tuning, OS tuning and including hardware and SAN troubleshooting and tuning.

DBA Services
Bradmark Professional Services can take on any DBA task. We can do anything from setting up backup/recovery tasks, documentation, all the way to running your data center for you.

Additional Services


Load Testing

Provide load testing and consulting using Mercury Interactive’s LoadRunner software.

Benchmarking
With 10 years of experience performing TPC benchmarking, BPS can perform standard or custom benchmarks tailored for you organization. Let us be your impartial benchmark tester.

SAN Configuration
Determine the right SAN hardware to purchase and we can help you to configure it successfully.

Capacity Planning and Sizing
BPS can help size your system. Backup and Recovery Based on your needs, BPS can create the most effective and secure backup and recovery plan.

Disaster Survival Planning
Develop a plan to survive a disaster and keep your business running.

Replication Configuration
Configure and manage MS SQL Server and Oracle replication.

Clustering with Oracle9i RAC
Configure and manage your Oracle9i RAC system.

Failover Clustering
Configure and manage Oracle and MS SQL Server failover clusters.