Tracy Boggiano
Senior SQL Developer at Abarca Health
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTracy Boggiano is a Senior SQL Developer and seasoned SQL Server DBA with a career stretching back to 1999, currently focused on delivering reliable, automated database solutions at Abarca Health. She combines deep operational expertise—performance tuning, migrations, high-availability and security hardening—with strong automation skills using PowerShell and community tools like dbatools and dbachecks. A Data Platform MVP since 2020 and prolific community contributor, she has co-authored SQL Server books, spoken at major events, and helped organize SQL Saturday Raleigh and local user groups. Her GitHub work improving dbatools and dbachecks reflects a practical focus on plan-cache management and robust environmental validation for SQL Server. Known for excellent teaching and mentoring, she brings both hands-on remediation (auto-repairing CIS/STIG checks) and strategic architecture to complex, high-throughput environments. Based in Cary, NC, she pairs decades of production experience with active open-source and community leadership that often surfaces non-obvious operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Information Systems - Programming, Associates Information Systems - Programming at Alamance Community College
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Github Skills (21)
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databases10
database-administration10
migration10
sql-server10
sql-migrations10
mssql10
microsoft-sql-server10
powershell10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbachecks
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
✔ SQL Server Environmental Validation
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:9 commits, 37 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Tracy primarily contributed to the `dbachecks` repository by modifying and adding to the PowerShell scripts used for SQL Server environmental validation. They added new checks for Query Store and contained database SQL authenticated users, as well as updated existing tests and configurations for SQL Browser service, and non-standard port configurations. The contributions focused on enhancing the scope and accuracy of the database validation, specifically regarding security and database settings.
dbatoolssqlserverdbasql-servervalidation
dataplat/dbatools
Jul 2018 - Mar 2022
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tracy's contributions center around modifying and enhancing PowerShell scripts within the dbatools repository. These changes primarily involve functions related to SQL Server plan cache management, specifically `Get-DbaQueryPlan`, `Remove-DbaQueryPlan`, and `Get-DbaPlanCache`. The user also updated these scripts to align with the project's code standards and address existing issues.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
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