Rob Sewell

Rob was a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). Now he just helps people. He is a Cloud and Data Center MVP and a Data Platform MVP, an officer for the PASS DevOps Virtual Chapter, co-leader of Data South West and PSConf EU organiser and has spoken at and volunteered at many Data and PowerShell events all over the world. He is a proud supporter of the Data and Powershell communities.

He relishes sharing and learning and can be found doing both via Twitter and his blog. He spends most of his time looking at a screen and loves to solve problems. He knows that looking at a screen so much is bad for him because his wife tells him so. Thus, you can find him on the cricket field in the summer and flying a drone in the winter.

He has a fabulous beard

Twitter: @@SQLDbaWithBeard
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/robsewellsqldba

Adding a PowerShell Job Step to an existing SQL Agent Job Step with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

In my last post I showed how to add a T-SQL Job step to an existing SQL Agent Job. The...

2017-03-13

1,137 reads

SQL VNext sp_configure on Windows and Linux with dbatools

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

This weekend I set up some SQL vNext virtual machines, two on Windows and one on Linux so that I...

2017-03-07 (first published: 2017-02-27)

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Adding a T-SQL Job Step to a SQL Agent Job with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

In my last post, I explained how to alter an existing job step across many servers. I also had cause...

2017-02-23 (first published: 2017-02-20)

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Altering a Job Step on Hundreds of SQL Servers with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

I flew to Utrecht last week to present with Chrissy LeMaire and Sander Stad to present to the joint Dutch...

2017-02-13

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Using the PowerShell SQL Provider with SQL Authentication

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Whilst having a conversation with Chrissy LeMaire last week about using the SQL Provider. She asked if it could use SQL...

2017-01-12

1,986 reads

Running SQL Queries with Visual Studio Code

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Reading this blog post by Shawn Melton Introduction of Visual Studio Code for DBAs reminded me that whilst I use...

2017-01-10 (first published: 2017-01-05)

5,786 reads

A Whole Day of PowerShell and SQL – Join Chrissy LeMaire & I at #sqlsatvienna

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

SQL Saturday Vienna 2017 is only just around the corner.
On Friday, January 20, 2017, a lot of local and international...

2017-01-09

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2016 – That was a Year :-)

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Its the time of year for reflection and I have had the most amazing 2016, I am blessed that I love...

2017-01-02

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Deploying a Windows Data Science Virtual Machine to Azure with PowerShell easily

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

This weekend (10 December 2016), I went to Slovenia for a SQL Saturday. As always, it was an amazing event...

2016-12-18

826 reads

Enabling Cortana for dbareports PowerBi

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Last week at the Birmingham user group I gave a presentation about PowerShell and SQL Server

It was a very packed...

2016-11-16 (first published: 2016-11-13)

1,830 reads

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