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

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Create a PowerShell Notebook for Azure Data Studio with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell. You can install the module with or if...

2019-11-14

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Create Azure Data Studio SQL Notebooks with PowerShell

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSSQLNotebook. which you can also find...

2019-11-07

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My current VS Code Extensions and using a workspace file

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

I have been asked a couple of times recently what my Visual Studio Code extensions are at the moment so I thought I would write a quick post and...

2019-11-01

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PowerShell Notebooks in Azure Data Studio

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks! You can download the latest insiders edition from the link above,...

2019-10-17

7 reads

MEAP MEAP – #dbatoolsMoL – Live Book edition

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

It’s been a busy time! As well as many other things, the fantastical BDFL of dbatools Chrissy Lemaire @cl and myself have written enough of a chunk of Learn dbatools in...

2019-09-04

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Using the same Azure DevOps build steps for Terraform with different Pipelines with Task Groups to build an Azure Linux SQL VM

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

In my last post I showed how to build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a Terraform build of an Azure SQLDB. This will take the terraform code and build...

2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-22)

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Persisting databases with named volumes on Windows with docker compose

by Rob Sewell

SQL DBA With A Beard

With all things containers I refer to my good friend Andrew Pruski. Known as dbafromthecold on twitter he blogs at https://dbafromthecold.com I was reading his latest blog post Using...

2019-03-26

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