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Presenting at PASS Summit 2023 – Atomic Habits

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

I’m excited to be presenting at PASS Summit 2023, not only because it is PASS Summit but because of the topic.  I do a lot of reading on productivity.  Please don’t ask me how many books I own or blogs and newsletters I am subscribed to.  But if you need

Mental Health Miscellaneous

Twenty Years as a Guardian ad Litem

June 26, 2023June 26, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

Twenty years ago, I stood in a courtroom and took an oath for a volunteer job I had no idea I would fall so much in love with or do for 20 years.  I was sworn in as North Carolina Guardian ad Litem and was handed my first case with

T-SQL Tuesday

T-SQL Tuesday #163 – Career Advice I received

June 21, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

It’s time for our monthly blog party and thanks to Gethyn Ellis ( t | b) for hosting this month. Gethyn asks us for the best Career Advice we’ve ever received. As with everything there is a story to go with it.  My first job out of high school I managed to

Automation PowerShell

Using Azure Automation and Runbooks to Run Azure SQL Database Maintenance Tasks

June 6, 2023June 23, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

I’ve been using Azure SQL Database for quite some while and have set up it in many various ways to run Ola’s Index Optimize and Statistics Updates on them.  All of these have seemed way too complicated probably because I was setting them up once, not again for several more

Mental Health Miscellaneous

WIT/DEI Mental Health and Wellness Day Challenge to Present

March 24, 2023March 23, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

Back in December 2019, I started presenting my session on mental health with lots of fear as to how the community was going to take my openness to the subject.  I was pleasantly surprised that in the three-plus years so far I’ve only had one person say bad things to

Miscellaneous

Call to Action for Female Speakers to Submit to EightKB

March 14, 2023March 15, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

EightKB is a wonderfully ran conference by my friends Mark Wilkinson (T | B), Anthony Nocentino (T | B), Andrew Pruski (T | B), and Marsha Pierce (T | B). They have rich, deep-dive content for every event and it is well attended. One problem they have though is getting

Automation

Script to Install the Tools I Use on My Jumpbox

January 24, 2023February 3, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

I wrote a blog post a few months ago about the tools I use on my jumpbox you can read here.  Since then, I have automated most of the install with Chocately and so I’ll have the script later I’m going to blog it here.  First, we need to install

Performance

Impact of Eliminating Implicit Conversions in JDBC Driver

January 18, 2023By Tracy Boggiano

Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop some indexes and they couldn’t because they couldn’t get a lock request.  Sadly, they were using the GUI to try to accomplish this.  Always makes

Recent Posts

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  • Living with Chronic Suicidal Thoughts: A Personal Reflection November 20, 2024
  • MVP No more, But It’s OK July 12, 2024
  • Presenting at PASS Summit 2023 – Atomic Habits July 26, 2023
  • Twenty Years as a Guardian ad Litem June 26, 2023

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