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

Speaking? You? Go on. #tsql2sday #84

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

This is a blog post for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday post, hosted by Andy Yun (b|t). T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly...

2016-11-08

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PowerBi and API – Visualising my Checkins

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

For my own amusement and also to show my wife where I have been I use the Swarm check-in app...

2016-11-03 (first published: 2016-10-29)

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PSConfAsia 2016

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

I have just got back to the UK from Singapore following the amazing PSConfAsia conference. I must say that Matt,...

2016-10-24

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PowerShell, Pester and Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

If you are a SQL DBA you will have heard of Ola Hallengrens Maintenance solution If you haven’t go and...

2016-10-04 (first published: 2016-09-24)

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Converting SQL Agent Job Duration to TimeSpan using PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

When you look in msdb for the SQL Agent Job duration you will find that it is an int.

This is...

2016-09-15 (first published: 2016-09-12)

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The SQL Server Community Collaborative GitHub Organisation is born

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

My wonderful friend Chrissy LeMaire and I are the creators of two GitHub repositories for SQL Server and PowerShell called...

2016-09-14

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Making Start-Demo work with multi-line commands without a backtick

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

I love to speak about PowerShell. I really enjoy giving presentations and when I saw Start-Demo being used at the...

2016-08-29

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Remove-SQLDatabaseSafely My First Contribution to DBATools

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

What is DBA Tools?
A collection of modules for SQL Server DBAs. It initially started out as ‘sqlmigration’, but has now...

2016-07-20

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Using the new SQLServer Powershell module to get SQL Agent Job Information

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

So with the July Release of SSMS everything changed for using PowerShell with SQL. You can read the details here...

2016-07-14 (first published: 2016-07-03)

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PowerShell CMDLets added for SQL2016 Always Encrypted

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

The post on the SQLServer blog at TechNet by the SQL Server Tools Team today made me jump out of...

2016-06-30

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Blogs

Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables

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