Tara Kizer
Senior Consultant at Straight Path IT Solutions
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTara Kizer is a seasoned SQL Server expert and Senior Consultant with over two decades of hands-on DBA experience, currently providing remote DBA services from San Diego. She specializes in performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery—particularly Always On Availability Groups and clustered multi-datacenter architectures—and has led mission-critical SQL environments at Qualcomm, Omnitracs and FTD. A former 10-year Microsoft SQL Server MVP, co-author of TribalSQL, and three-time SQL Saturday presenter, she combines deep tooling fluency (traces, Extended Events, SQL Sentry, Foglight) with practical automation and custom maintenance scripts. Tara is known for turning slow queries and fragile systems into resilient, high-performance platforms and for mentoring teams through schema and code refactors that yield measurable latency improvements. An interesting non-obvious detail: she built a continuous server-side SQL Trace aggregation system early in her career to enable proactive, long-term performance analysis.
9 years of coding experience
A.S. in General Education, A.S. in General Education at Grossmont CollegeB.S. in Mathematics with emphasis in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, B.S. in Mathematics with emphasis in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science at San Diego State University
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Github Skills (18)
health9
migration9
backup9
powershell8
performance-tuning8
database8
sql-server8
sp-blitz8
database-administration7
mssql7
blitz7
microsoft-sql-server7
sql6
automation5
oracle5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
TaraKizer/dbatools
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
sql-serverpowershellsqlproductivepowershell-module
BrentOzarULTD/SQL-Server-First-Responder-Kit
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, sp_BlitzFirst, sp_BlitzIndex, and other SQL Server scripts for health checks and performance tuning.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
health-checkssp-blitzsql-serverserver-scriptsmicrosoft-sql-server
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