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

Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on...

2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-08)

5,168 reads

Giving Back – #TSQL2sday

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a...

2014-12-09

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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...

2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)

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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...

2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)

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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

What is T-SQL Tuesday?

T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...

2014-11-11

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Generating T-SQL Randomly with Powershell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...

2014-11-05

562 reads

Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...

2014-11-04

4,922 reads

Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...

2014-10-06

725 reads

PowerShell Snippets A Great Learning Tool

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good...

2014-09-09

744 reads

Find Out Which Indexes are on which Filegroups using PowerShell And How To Find Other Information

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Which indexes are on...

2014-09-07

549 reads

Blogs

Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness

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During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...

The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding

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For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...

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Question of the Day

The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User

On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:

CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567'
GO
ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo
GO

I then login as Demo and run this:

USE sandbox
go
SELECT CURRENT_USER

What is returned?

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