Tracy Boggiano
Database Superhero at Sound Physicians, Just someone trying to make a difference in the world
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Tracy Boggiano is currently a 3x Data Platform MVP, the PASSion 2020 Award winner for her outstanding volunteer work in the data community, and works as a Database Architect for Sound Physicians. Tracy has worked on SQL Server since 6.5. She is currently a co-leader of the Triangle SQL Server User Group in Raleigh, NC, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Data Community Virtual Group. She was featured in RedGate's inaugural 100 most influential data professional's list in the Community Heroes category in 2022.
When she is not doing things in the Data Platform community, she tries to make a difference somewhere. Her number one passion outside of SQL Server is volunteering by advocating for abused and neglected foster children in court through the North Carolina Guardian ad Litem program. This is her favorite and most important job. She has been a Guardian ad Litem since 2003 and advocated for over 60 children. She won the Overall Outstanding Volunteer Award in her county from the United Way in 2021 for her volunteer work with the Guardian ad Litem program. As someone who experienced mental health issues, she has for the past two years started being a mental health advocate by being a part of the PAIMI (Protection and Advocacy of Individuals with Mental Illnesses) Advisory Council with the DRNC (Disability Rights of North Carolina). She also serves on the board of directors for Foster Family Alliance of NC, a charity dedicated to educating, advocating, supporting, and promoting partnerships that led to positive outcomes for children, youth, and foster families of NC, and Youth Lead NC, a charity dedicated equipping youth with disabilities with the skills and support needed to reach their full potential and become independent, productive members of society. She also volunteers with her church. Don't ask how she has time to do these things, she will say it has something to do with "fairy dust".
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How Leaders Can Support Their Employee’s Mental Health
Ever had an employee under your leadership going through a trying time with their mental health and not know what do or what to say? Did an employee ever take time off to attend to their mental health and you weren’t sure how to handle their situation when they came back to work? Have you suspected an employee was having an issue and didn’t know how to approach the subject? Then come to this session for the answers to these questions and more so you as a leader can help support an employee’s mental health.
This session is intended for anybody in a leadership role. This session provides practical, straightforward strategies to be used to address a very difficult topic.
Using dbachecks to Validate Your SQL Server Estate
Checking that all your SQL server instances are in compliance with your standards can be a tedious task if you have to do it manually. Well, that is where dbachecks comes in. This open-source PowerShell community written module makes this task easy. It can be run across your entire estate to check your instances are meeting all your standards. It has several built-in tests for things such as how long ago was CHECKDB run, how long ago were backups run, are your SQL Agent operators correct, is Query Store configured properly, is DAC allowed, is the instance CIS compliant, are your autogrowth settings correct, do you have too many VLFs in your log file, and many more. You can even write your own if they don’t exist in the module. The results can be displayed in a PowerBI report that is easy for managers to understand and saved to a database for historical reporting.
Come to this session to learn how to leverage this PowerShell module to make sure your environment is meeting your standards everywhere without having to write your own solution.
How To Get the Auditors Off Your Butt with dbachecks
Auditors are no fun to deal with and proving your systems meet their standards can be a PITA. Do you really want to have to provide print screens or run queries on servers to provide them with data when you can just run PowerShell using dbachecks and produce a PowerBi report? Yeah, I didn’t think so, so let’s talk about how to use dbachecks then specifically how to use for CIS compliance. After that we will cover how to write your own custom checks so you can utilize this tool for your own security compliance requirements.
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
One in four Americans suffers from a mental health challenge each year. In the tech community, this number rises to 42% and rises to 48% in the UK. Mental health challenges in IT is a worldwide problem. The stigma associated with discussions around mental health, as well as how it can negatively impact your work and home life, make people reluctant to discuss the topic. Now is the time to start discussing mental health in tech and how to take advantage of the opportunity to safeguard our most precious resource: people.
We'll discuss how mental health affects job quality, including sharing examples from my professional life. We'll discuss the four primary workplace factors which play a pivotal role in mental health challenges in the tech community. I'll provide tips on what is best to say and not say to people you know whose lives are being affected by their mental health. Lastly, we'll cover how to make your workplace a safe place where mental health can be talked about and how to encourage your company to offer resources to help maintain everyone's mental health.
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Richmond SQL Server Users Group User group Upcoming
Triangle Area SQL Server User Group (TriPASS) User group Upcoming
Microsoft Data Professionals' Forum Upcoming
Using dbachecks to Validate your SQL Server Estate
Microsoft Data Professionals' Forum User group
Richmond SQL Server Users Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
PASS Data Community Summit 2022
Using dbachecks to Validate your SQL Server Estate
Raleigh PowerShell User Group
Using dbachecks to Validate your SQL Server Estate
Capital Area SQL Server User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Los Angeles Data Platform User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
SQL Trail
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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Intro to Query Store
Calgary User Group
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
TGIF
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Sacramento SQL Server Local User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
SQLData Partners Podcast
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
Triad SQL Server User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Denver Local User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Data Saturday Southwest US
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Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
Data Platform WIT - Mental Wellness Day
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
PHP Midwest Conference 2021
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Adalaide Local SQL Server User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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Intro to Query Store
Saturday #1015 Vienna 2021
Intro to Query Store
Philadelphia Local User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Richmond SQL Server Local User Group
SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
PASS Virtual Summit 2020
Mental Health in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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Mental Health in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
Mixed Extents Podcast
Query Store
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Idera Geek Sync
Intro to Query Store
Edmonton PASS Local User
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
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SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
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Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
Intro to Query Store
PASS Virtual Professional Development
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
Dataweekender 2020
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
SQLSaturday #935 Rochester
Intro to Query Store
More Common Than You Think: Mental Illness in Tech
SQLSaturday #939 – Austin – BI Edition
More Common Than You Think: Mental Illness in Tech
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
SQLSaturday #923 Washington, DC
Intro to Query Store
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Intro to Query Store
SQLSaturday #918 Charlotte
More Common Than You Think: Mental Illness in Tech
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Intro to Query Store
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
Intro to Query Store
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Intro to Query Store
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
SQLSaturday #846 Richmond
Intro to Query Store
Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Collecting Performance Metrics
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Intro to Query Store
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Using Open Source Products to Collect Performance Metrics
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Monitoring Availability Groups
Data Relay
Intro to Query Store
Data Relay
Intro to Query Store
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Data Relay
Intro to Query Store
Data Relay
Intro to Query Store
Data Relay
Intro to Query Store
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Intro to Query Store
Tips on Managing Lots of SQL Servers
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Collecting Performance Metrics
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Collecting Performance Metrics
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Tips on Managing Lots of SQL Servers
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Intro to Query Store
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Collecting Performance Metrics
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Query Store Primer
SQLSaturday #734 Dallas
Intro to Query Store
IDERA Live
Defend Your Database Against Disasters
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Monitoring Availability Groups
Lincoln SQL Server Local User Group
Monitoring Availability Groups
SQLSaturday #714 Philadelphia
Collecting Performance Metrics
Tips on Managing Lots of SQL Servers
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Collecting Performance Metrics
Monitoring Availability Groups
SQLSaturday #699 Tampa
Collecting Performance Metrics
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Tips on Managing Lots of SQL Servers
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Query Store Primer
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SQLSaturday #693 Washington, DC
Monitoring Availability Groups
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SQL Server Performance Metrics: How do you collect them and why should you care?
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
Tips on Managing Lots of SQL Servers
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Does This Look Weird? The Importance ff Baselining
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Does This Look Weird? The Importance of Baselining
Query Store Primer
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Tips on Managing a Lot of SQL Servers
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Collecting Baseline Metrics
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Collecting Baseline Metrics
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Query Store Primer
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Monitoring Availability Groups
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Query Store Primer
Disaster Where to Begin
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Disaster Where to Begin
Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Query Store Primer
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Disaster Where to Begin
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Disaster Recovery 101
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Disaster Where to Begin
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Disaster Recovery 101
Tracy Boggiano
Database Superhero at Sound Physicians, Just someone trying to make a difference in the world
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States