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Joshua B.

Joshua B.

Versailles, KY
Job Success
Top Rated Plus

Highest Rated SQL Server DBA (Expert-Vetted)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Josh is totally fantastic. His work had a tremendous impact on our software systems. He is very punctual, responsive, and professional in every way imaginable." I'm the highest rated and highest-earning SQL Server DBA freelancer on Upwork with numerous 5-star reviews, including overly positive feedback. I've solved customer-facing SQL Server bottlenecks and made massive performance improvements for fortune 500 companies and well-known organizations, including the following to illustrate some of them: ✅ Oracle Cerner (Fortune 500 Company) ✅ CBRE (Fortune 500 Company) ✅ Stanford University ✅ Alltech Inc. (~2.5 Billion Estimated Revenue per Year) ✅ Viega (~150 Million Estimated Revenue per Year) I was featured as the top freelancer in the IT and networking category on Upwork, which has over 116,000 Freelancers in the category (refer to the portfolio section of my profile for details). ⭐ Here's what I can bring to your project ⭐ ✅ Top-notch experience in all versions of SQL Server (2000 - 2019) and cloud platforms ✅ Extensive experience working with large enterprise transactional databases ✅ Expert understanding of data security best practices when working with PII and PHI data ✅ Ability to quickly diagnose SQL performance issues and identify query pain points ✅ Expert ability in designing ETL processes for data warehouses and BI databases ✅ 24/7 ultra-reliable communication: you will always be aware of the project status ✅ Someone who cares about helping you succeed and bringing value to your business ⭐ Why you should choose me over other freelancers ⭐ ✅ Client Reviews: I focus on providing value to all of my clients and earning their TRUST. ✅ Over-Delivering: this is core to my work as a freelancer. My focus is on giving more than what I expect to receive. I take pride in leaving all of my clients saying "WOW" ✅ Responsiveness: being extremely responsive and keeping all lines of communication readily open with my clients. ✅ Resilience: reach out to any of my current or former clients and ask them about my resilience. For any issue that my clients face, I attack them and find a solution. ✅ Kindness: one of the main aspects of my life that I implement in every facet. Treating everyone with respect, understanding all situations with empathy, and genuinely wanting to improve my client's situations. 🏆 Reviews and feedback from high-profile clients 🏆 The client reviews below describe the quality of work and value that you can expect from working with me. "I've been very impressed working with Josh on a project for Stanford University. He took seriously the concerns we had when handling HIPPA-related data. He's professional, detail-minded and eager to assist other technologists involved in the project. I definitely will be reaching out to Josh when I need freelance work in the future." - Noah Abrahamson, Stanford University "We were in need of a SQL DBA to assist us in the upgrade of our CRM and Josh was able to come in and assist us and performed beyond our expectations. He worked on the schedule we needed him to and we are now keeping him on stand-by for future SQL work. If we could give Josh 10 stars we would, he knows what he is doing and genuinely wanted to help us get our migration completed successfully." - Adam Siegel, CBRE "Josh is a rockstar. We've used him on a number of projects and thought it was time to close this one and give him his 5-stars that he deserves. He's sliced through everything we've asked of him...replication, high availability, fixing previous DBA sins, optimizing queries and databases, backups, cloud migrations, you name it. Nailed every bit of it." - Anthony Presley, Truno
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Feb 13, 2019 - Jan 11, 2023
Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jun 16, 2022 - Sep 12, 2022

"Josh is not just a five star review.. he is a fantastic human being that is wonderful to work with. Josh's communication, job knowledge and availability surpassed my expectations. He managed to expunge a performance problem that has plagued our organization for over five years, where no other resource could find the right combination of solutions. If you're in need of an expert SQL resource.. don't think.. hire Josh and experience his great personality and quality workmanship. I'm looking forward to working with Josh again in the near future!"

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jul 28, 2016 - Jan 8, 2021

"It is always great working with Josh! The quality, professionalism and timeliness of his work is second to none. Will definitely use him again!"

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Nov 8, 2016 - Sep 18, 2019

"Joshua is very knowledgable on SQL server setup, management and tuning. Great working with him."

Private earnings
Rating is 4.85 out of 5.
4.85 Jul 28, 2016 - Jun 27, 2019
Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 May 11, 2018 - Apr 25, 2019

"Joshua helped troubleshoot performance issues that we had with our SQL server environment. He quickly pointed out the bottlenecks and came up with a plan to fix performance."

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jun 28, 2018 - Apr 25, 2019

"Josh helped us solve a long standing MS SQL problem at a major client’s site. We had been banging our heads against the wall trying to figure out what was going on for months, but Josh figured it out in a matter of hours and the client has not seen a recurrence of the problem."

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Mar 22, 2019 - Mar 28, 2019

"Josh was a pleasure to work with and we'll be looking to work with him again in the future. He was able to quickly diagnose our SQL database performance issue and provide a fix for us. Great communication, reliable and very well versed in sql!"

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Jan 8, 2019 - Mar 15, 2019

This feedback has been removed

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Aug 24, 2016 - Mar 14, 2019

"Excellent SQL Server DBA, not only his technical abilities but also his documentation skills."

Private earnings
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Portfolio

SQL Server DBA Performance Tuning
SQL Server DBA Performance Tuning
Featured as the Top Freelancer in the IT & Networking Category
Featured as the Top Freelancer in the IT & Networking Category
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Joshua B.

Joshua B.

Versailles, KY
Job Success
Top Rated Plus
133
Total Jobs
10,009
Total Hours

Highest Rated SQL Server DBA (Expert-Vetted)

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Josh is totally fantastic. His work had a tremendous impact on our software systems. He is very punctual, responsive, and professional in every way imaginable." I'm the highest rated and highest-earning SQL Server DBA freelancer on Upwork with numerous 5-star reviews, including overly positive feedback. I've solved customer-facing SQL Server bottlenecks and made massive performance improvements for fortune 500 companies and well-known organizations, including the following to illustrate some of them: ✅ Oracle Cerner (Fortune 500 Company) ✅ CBRE (Fortune 500 Company) ✅ Stanford University ✅ Alltech Inc. (~2.5 Billion Estimated Revenue per Year) ✅ Viega (~150 Million Estimated Revenue per Year) I was featured as the top freelancer in the IT and networking category on Upwork, which has over 116,000 Freelancers in the category (refer to the portfolio section of my profile for details). ⭐ Here's what I can bring to your project ⭐ ✅ Top-notch experience in all versions of SQL Server (2000 - 2019) and cloud platforms ✅ Extensive experience working with large enterprise transactional databases ✅ Expert understanding of data security best practices when working with PII and PHI data ✅ Ability to quickly diagnose SQL performance issues and identify query pain points ✅ Expert ability in designing ETL processes for data warehouses and BI databases ✅ 24/7 ultra-reliable communication: you will always be aware of the project status ✅ Someone who cares about helping you succeed and bringing value to your business ⭐ Why you should choose me over other freelancers ⭐ ✅ Client Reviews: I focus on providing value to all of my clients and earning their TRUST. ✅ Over-Delivering: this is core to my work as a freelancer. My focus is on giving more than what I expect to receive. I take pride in leaving all of my clients saying "WOW" ✅ Responsiveness: being extremely responsive and keeping all lines of communication readily open with my clients. ✅ Resilience: reach out to any of my current or former clients and ask them about my resilience. For any issue that my clients face, I attack them and find a solution. ✅ Kindness: one of the main aspects of my life that I implement in every facet. Treating everyone with respect, understanding all situations with empathy, and genuinely wanting to improve my client's situations. 🏆 Reviews and feedback from high-profile clients 🏆 The client reviews below describe the quality of work and value that you can expect from working with me. "I've been very impressed working with Josh on a project for Stanford University. He took seriously the concerns we had when handling HIPPA-related data. He's professional, detail-minded and eager to assist other technologists involved in the project. I definitely will be reaching out to Josh when I need freelance work in the future." - Noah Abrahamson, Stanford University "We were in need of a SQL DBA to assist us in the upgrade of our CRM and Josh was able to come in and assist us and performed beyond our expectations. He worked on the schedule we needed him to and we are now keeping him on stand-by for future SQL work. If we could give Josh 10 stars we would, he knows what he is doing and genuinely wanted to help us get our migration completed successfully." - Adam Siegel, CBRE "Josh is a rockstar. We've used him on a number of projects and thought it was time to close this one and give him his 5-stars that he deserves. He's sliced through everything we've asked of him...replication, high availability, fixing previous DBA sins, optimizing queries and databases, backups, cloud migrations, you name it. Nailed every bit of it." - Anthony Presley, Truno
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Feb 13, 2019 - Jan 11, 2023
Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jun 16, 2022 - Sep 12, 2022

"Josh is not just a five star review.. he is a fantastic human being that is wonderful to work with. Josh's communication, job knowledge and availability surpassed my expectations. He managed to expunge a performance problem that has plagued our organization for over five years, where no other resource could find the right combination of solutions. If you're in need of an expert SQL resource.. don't think.. hire Josh and experience his great personality and quality workmanship. I'm looking forward to working with Josh again in the near future!"

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jul 28, 2016 - Jan 8, 2021

"It is always great working with Josh! The quality, professionalism and timeliness of his work is second to none. Will definitely use him again!"

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Nov 8, 2016 - Sep 18, 2019

"Joshua is very knowledgable on SQL server setup, management and tuning. Great working with him."

Private earnings
Rating is 4.85 out of 5.
4.85 Jul 28, 2016 - Jun 27, 2019
Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 May 11, 2018 - Apr 25, 2019

"Joshua helped troubleshoot performance issues that we had with our SQL server environment. He quickly pointed out the bottlenecks and came up with a plan to fix performance."

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Jun 28, 2018 - Apr 25, 2019

"Josh helped us solve a long standing MS SQL problem at a major client’s site. We had been banging our heads against the wall trying to figure out what was going on for months, but Josh figured it out in a matter of hours and the client has not seen a recurrence of the problem."

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Mar 22, 2019 - Mar 28, 2019

"Josh was a pleasure to work with and we'll be looking to work with him again in the future. He was able to quickly diagnose our SQL database performance issue and provide a fix for us. Great communication, reliable and very well versed in sql!"

Private earnings
Jan 8, 2019 - Mar 15, 2019

This feedback has been removed

Private earnings
Rating is 5 out of 5.
5.00 Aug 24, 2016 - Mar 14, 2019

"Excellent SQL Server DBA, not only his technical abilities but also his documentation skills."

Private earnings
Joshua B. has more jobs. Create an account to review them

Portfolio

SQL Server DBA Performance Tuning
SQL Server DBA Performance Tuning
Featured as the Top Freelancer in the IT & Networking Category
Featured as the Top Freelancer in the IT & Networking Category
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