Using PowerShell to Automate StreamLabs OBS and Show Your Webcam in PowerPoint
It started with a tweet
It started with a tweet
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meet...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell.
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSNotebook.
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 also look at...
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
Most of my writing time at the moment is devoted to Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches which is now available but here is a short post following a questio...
It’s been a busy time!
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
Saturday 27th April is Global Azure Bootcamp day
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the commands within the script have been written to use the co...
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to do what you expect. You can do this by using the Wh...
I was going through my demo for the South Coast User Group meeting tonight and decided to add some details about the Because parameter available in the Peste...
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office, not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice. With merriment going on outside of his window There s...
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
So you have read up on VLFs
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good tip
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
SQL mirroring is a means of providing high availability for your SQL database. It is available in Standard Edition and although the feature is deprecated it ...
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter
A very short blog today just to pass on this little script.
I have recently been involved in a project to rationalise databases. It is easy in a large organisation for database numbers to rapidly increase and sometime...
A quick and simple post today as I have been very busy. I needed to list the users with permissions on mirroring endpoints today so I wrote this script and f...
A quick blog today. I was reading this blog post about How to read the SQL Error Log and I thought I would try some of the examples. I started my Azure VM us...
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
The last post about Launching Azure VMs with PowerShell made someone ask me to explain how I start my Azure VMs normally so here goes.
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
So this morning I decided I was going to run through this blog post on understanding query plans http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/understanding-query-plans. I logged ...
Yesterdays Post Show-WindowsUpdatesLocal does enable you to search for an installed update as follows
I wanted to be able to quickly show the Windows Updates on a server. This came about during a discussion about auditing.
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users wer...
The latest post in the PowerShell Box of tricks series is here.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. There are much better ways of doing this I admit but as you can do it with PowerShell I created a functi...
Another day another PowerShell Box of Tricks post Auditors, managers and bosses often want proof of following processes successfully so when they come knocki...
Todays PowerShell Box of Tricks Post is about backups I highly recommend you go and read bookmark and come straight back Stuart Moore’s series on Backups wit...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
Todays post from my PowerShell Box of Tricks series is about the SQL Error Log. DBAs need to read the error log for many reasons and there are different ways...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
As you know, I love PowerShell! I have developed a series of functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good ser...
I have developed a series of PowerShell functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers....
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
With over 700 databases to look after at MyWork automation is high on my list of priorities. I have two PowerShell scripts which run regularly checking SQL E...
As some of you may know, I love PowerShell!
I am impressed with the output from sp_BlitzIndex™ and today I tried to save it to an excel file so that I could pass it on to the developer of the service. ...
So at our SQL SouthWest User Group session last week we had sessions from Jonathan @fatherjack and Annette @Mrsfatherjack on SSRS and SSIS respectively. Dur...
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
This has been an interesting journey. The Adventure Works database is frequently used in blogs and reference books and I wanted to install it in my Windows A...
The timing was good enough that I could offer to do a talk based on my previous post on Windows Azure for my SQL User Group SQL SouthWest when Jonathan and A...
So at SQL Bits I went to Chris Testa-O’Neill’s session on certification. This has inspired me to start working on passing the MCSE exams. My PC at home doesn...
You know how it is. Question questions questions. As a DBA you are the fount of all knowledge. You are the protector of the data after all so obviously you k...
Or, How SQLBits put me in touch with Laerte and solved a problem
It started with a tweet
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meet...
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
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 the requi...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In my last post I showed how to create a Resource Group and an Azure SQL Database with Terraform using Visual Studio Code to deploy.
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
So you have read up on VLFs
SQL mirroring is a means of providing high availability for your SQL database. It is available in Standard Edition and although the feature is deprecated it ...
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
The last post about Launching Azure VMs with PowerShell made someone ask me to explain how I start my Azure VMs normally so here goes.
I wanted to be able to quickly show the Windows Updates on a server. This came about during a discussion about auditing.
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another day another PowerShell Box of Tricks post Auditors, managers and bosses often want proof of following processes successfully so when they come knocki...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell!
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
With over 700 databases to look after at MyWork automation is high on my list of priorities. I have two PowerShell scripts which run regularly checking SQL E...
As some of you may know, I love PowerShell!
I am impressed with the output from sp_BlitzIndex™ and today I tried to save it to an excel file so that I could pass it on to the developer of the service. ...
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
You know how it is. Question questions questions. As a DBA you are the fount of all knowledge. You are the protector of the data after all so obviously you k...
It started with a tweet
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
In the previous post I showed the script to create an Excel Workbook, colour coded showing the last used date for all of the databases on servers in my sqlse...
I have recently been involved in a project to rationalise databases. It is easy in a large organisation for database numbers to rapidly increase and sometime...
So this morning I decided I was going to run through this blog post on understanding query plans http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/understanding-query-plans. I logged ...
Yesterdays Post Show-WindowsUpdatesLocal does enable you to search for an installed update as follows
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users wer...
Todays PowerShell Box of Tricks Post is about backups I highly recommend you go and read bookmark and come straight back Stuart Moore’s series on Backups wit...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
Todays post from my PowerShell Box of Tricks series is about the SQL Error Log. DBAs need to read the error log for many reasons and there are different ways...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell!
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
As you know, I love PowerShell! I have developed a series of functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good ser...
I have developed a series of PowerShell functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers....
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As some of you may know, I love PowerShell!
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users wer...
The latest post in the PowerShell Box of tricks series is here.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. There are much better ways of doing this I admit but as you can do it with PowerShell I created a functi...
Another day another PowerShell Box of Tricks post Auditors, managers and bosses often want proof of following processes successfully so when they come knocki...
Todays PowerShell Box of Tricks Post is about backups I highly recommend you go and read bookmark and come straight back Stuart Moore’s series on Backups wit...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
Todays post from my PowerShell Box of Tricks series is about the SQL Error Log. DBAs need to read the error log for many reasons and there are different ways...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell!
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
As you know, I love PowerShell! I have developed a series of functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good ser...
I have developed a series of PowerShell functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers....
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meet...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell.
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
Most of my writing time at the moment is devoted to Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches which is now available but here is a short post following a questio...
It’s been a busy time!
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂
SQL mirroring is a means of providing high availability for your SQL database. It is available in Standard Edition and although the feature is deprecated it ...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Most of my writing time at the moment is devoted to Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches which is now available but here is a short post following a questio...
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
A quick blog today. I was reading this blog post about How to read the SQL Error Log and I thought I would try some of the examples. I started my Azure VM us...
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users wer...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell!
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell.
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSNotebook.
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell.
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSNotebook.
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
In my last post I showed how to add a folder of scripts to GitHub using Visual Studio Code.
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. There are much better ways of doing this I admit but as you can do it with PowerShell I created a functi...
You know how it is. Question questions questions. As a DBA you are the fount of all knowledge. You are the protector of the data after all so obviously you k...
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data ...
A quick blog today. I was reading this blog post about How to read the SQL Error Log and I thought I would try some of the examples. I started my Azure VM us...
The last post about Launching Azure VMs with PowerShell made someone ask me to explain how I start my Azure VMs normally so here goes.
So this morning I decided I was going to run through this blog post on understanding query plans http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/understanding-query-plans. I logged ...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
The latest update to the ADSNotebook PowerShell module I blogged about here now enables the creation of PowerShell notebooks with PowerShell.
At PASS Summit today I gave a presentation about SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA. I demo’d the PowerShell module ADSNotebook.
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
As you know, I love PowerShell! I have developed a series of functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good ser...
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
Changing Domain Names in a Column
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. In a previous post Checking SQL Server User Role Membership we showed how to check which roles users wer...
I have developed a series of PowerShell functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers....
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to do what you expect. You can do this by using the Wh...
I was going through my demo for the South Coast User Group meeting tonight and decided to add some details about the Because parameter available in the Peste...
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
You know how it is. Question questions questions. As a DBA you are the fount of all knowledge. You are the protector of the data after all so obviously you k...
Changing Domain Names in a Column
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Changing Domain Names in a Column
So you have read up on VLFs
I have recently been involved in a project to rationalise databases. It is easy in a large organisation for database numbers to rapidly increase and sometime...
I am impressed with the output from sp_BlitzIndex™ and today I tried to save it to an excel file so that I could pass it on to the developer of the service. ...
So at our SQL SouthWest User Group session last week we had sessions from Jonathan @fatherjack and Annette @Mrsfatherjack on SSRS and SSIS respectively. Dur...
A very short blog today just to pass on this little script.
I have developed a series of PowerShell functions over time which save me time and effort whilst still enabling me to provide a good service to my customers....
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
As you know, I love PowerShell! I use it all the time in my daily job as a SQL DBA and at home whilst learning as well. Not only do I use PowerShell for auto...
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
Another day another PowerShell Box of Tricks post Auditors, managers and bosses often want proof of following processes successfully so when they come knocki...
Todays PowerShell Box of Tricks Post is about backups I highly recommend you go and read bookmark and come straight back Stuart Moore’s series on Backups wit...
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
So you have read up on VLFs
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good tip
I have always been extremely proud to be a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, and lucky enough to be involved with both the PowerShell community as well as...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
With all things containers I refer to my good friend Andrew Pruski. Known as dbafromthecold on twitter he blogs at https://dbafromthecold.com
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, Mac...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others suf...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
In my last post I showed how to create a Resource Group and an Azure SQL Database with Terraform using Visual Studio Code to deploy.
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others suf...
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 the requi...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In my last post I showed how to create a Resource Group and an Azure SQL Database with Terraform using Visual Studio Code to deploy.
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 the requi...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In my last post I showed how to create a Resource Group and an Azure SQL Database with Terraform using Visual Studio Code to deploy.
Azure Data Studio is a great tool for connecting with your data platform whether it is in Azure or on your hardware. Jupyter Notebooks are fantastic, you can...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
I have always been extremely proud to be a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, and lucky enough to be involved with both the PowerShell community as well as...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Changing Domain Names in a Column
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
Changing Domain Names in a Column
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently I wanted to add several months of data into a database. ...
The quality of the speakers and sessions is exceptional http://sqlbits.com/information/Agenda.aspx
It started with a tweet
The timing was good enough that I could offer to do a talk based on my previous post on Windows Azure for my SQL User Group SQL SouthWest when Jonathan and A...
A quick blog today. I was reading this blog post about How to read the SQL Error Log and I thought I would try some of the examples. I started my Azure VM us...
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
SQL mirroring is a means of providing high availability for your SQL database. It is available in Standard Edition and although the feature is deprecated it ...
Whilst using my Drop-SQLLogins function, which is one of my PowerShell Box Of Tricks series, it failed to delete logins on some servers with the error
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
In the previous post I showed the script to create an Excel Workbook, colour coded showing the last used date for all of the databases on servers in my sqlse...
I have recently been involved in a project to rationalise databases. It is easy in a large organisation for database numbers to rapidly increase and sometime...
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
In the previous post I showed the script to create an Excel Workbook, colour coded showing the last used date for all of the databases on servers in my sqlse...
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
In the previous post I showed the script to create an Excel Workbook, colour coded showing the last used date for all of the databases on servers in my sqlse...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
So you have read up on VLFs
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office, not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice. With merriment going on outside of his window There s...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to do what you expect. You can do this by using the Wh...
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the commands within the script have been written to use the co...
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to do what you expect. You can do this by using the Wh...
In my last blog post I showed how to run a script with the WhatIf parameter. This assumes that the commands within the script have been written to use the co...
Before you run a PowerShell command that makes a change to something you should check that it is going to do what you expect. You can do this by using the Wh...
With all things containers I refer to my good friend Andrew Pruski. Known as dbafromthecold on twitter he blogs at https://dbafromthecold.com
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others suf...
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 also look at...
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others suf...
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
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 also look at...
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
Most of my writing time at the moment is devoted to Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches which is now available but here is a short post following a questio...
It’s been a busy time!
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
My last post had a lot of information about the new .NET PowerShell notebooks including installation instructions.
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meet...
Following on from yesterdays post about creating an overview of SQL Agent Job Results and sending it to a Teams channel, I was given another challenge
Microsoft Teams is fantastic for collaboration. It enables groups of people, teams if you like to be able to communicate, collaborate on documents, hold meet...
Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names.
Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names.
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
Changing Domain Names in a Column
The quality of the speakers and sessions is exceptional http://sqlbits.com/information/Agenda.aspx
Or, How SQLBits put me in touch with Laerte and solved a problem
Or, How SQLBits put me in touch with Laerte and solved a problem
You know how it is. Question questions questions. As a DBA you are the fount of all knowledge. You are the protector of the data after all so obviously you k...
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
It was patching time this week at MyWork so I thought I would share some Powershell scripts I use to speed up the process.
So at our SQL SouthWest User Group session last week we had sessions from Jonathan @fatherjack and Annette @Mrsfatherjack on SSRS and SSIS respectively. Dur...
As some of you may know, I love PowerShell!
With over 700 databases to look after at MyWork automation is high on my list of priorities. I have two PowerShell scripts which run regularly checking SQL E...
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
Alerting of issues across the SQL Server estate is important and recently I needed to audit the operators and the notifications that they were receiving. I c...
This morning I have been setting up my Azure Servers in preparation for my presentation to the Cardiff SQL User Group this month.
As you may have noticed, I love PowerShell!
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. Here is another script which I use to save me time and effort during my daily workload enabling me to sp...
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. There are much better ways of doing this I admit but as you can do it with PowerShell I created a functi...
The latest post in the PowerShell Box of tricks series is here.
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series.
There is a newer up to date version of this post here using the dbatools module and the sqlserver module
When I started as a DBA at MyWork I faced a challenge. Many hundreds of databases, dozens of servers and no idea what was on where. It was remembering this s...
Whilst writing my PowerShell Box of Tricks GUI I realised that I had hard-coded the path to the sqlservers.txt file in several functions and I wanted one pla...
I wanted to be able to quickly show the Windows Updates on a server. This came about during a discussion about auditing.
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
Last week I ran a PowerShell lab at SQL Relay in Cardiff. There are still a few places available for SQL Relay week 2. Take a look here for more details and ...
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
This post could also have been titled confusion with foreach or For-EachObject
A quick blog today. I was reading this blog post about How to read the SQL Error Log and I thought I would try some of the examples. I started my Azure VM us...
SQL Saturdays and other community events rely on sponsors and you know that you will often get entered into a raffle for a prize in exchange for your contact...
I have recently been involved in a project to rationalise databases. It is easy in a large organisation for database numbers to rapidly increase and sometime...
A very short blog today just to pass on this little script.
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
Following last weeks post on Refreshing A Mirrored Database with PowerShell I thought I would write the script to refresh an Availability Group Database.
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good tip
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good tip
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good tip
So you have read up on VLFs
So you have read up on VLFs
So you have read up on VLFs
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening I wrote a Powershell script to provide some alerts by em...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received t...
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data ...
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data ...
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data ...
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on a server and when. This can be invaluable when troubleshooting,...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a different person each month. The host sele...
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office, not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice. With merriment going on outside of his window There s...
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office, not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice. With merriment going on outside of his window There s...
TagLine – My goal – Chrissy will appreciate Unit Tests one day 🙂
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
Last weekend I was thinking about how to save the tweets for PowerShell Conference Europe. This annual event occurs in Hanover and this year it is on April 1...
My wonderful friend André Kamman wrote a fantastic blog post this week SQL Server Container Instances via Cloudshell about how he uses containers in Azure to...
Saturday 27th April is Global Azure Bootcamp day
Saturday 27th April is Global Azure Bootcamp day
With all things containers I refer to my good friend Andrew Pruski. Known as dbafromthecold on twitter he blogs at https://dbafromthecold.com
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
For a later blog post I have been trying to generate some workload against an AdventureWorks database.
In my last post I showed how to add a folder of scripts to GitHub using Visual Studio Code.
In my last post I showed how to add a folder of scripts to GitHub using Visual Studio Code.
I have been using Terraform for the last week or so to create some infrastructure and decided to bring that knowledge back to a problem that I and others suf...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
In the last few posts I have moved from building an Azure SQL DB with Terraform using VS Code to automating the build process for the Azure SQL DB using Azur...
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 the requi...
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 the requi...
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 the requi...
In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terraform in this GitHub repository and crea...
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
I have done a lot of writing in the last few months but you see no blog posts! My wonderful friend Chrissy and I are writing “dbatools in a Month of Lunches”...
It’s been a busy time!
It’s been a busy time!
It’s been a busy time!
Most of my writing time at the moment is devoted to Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches which is now available but here is a short post following a questio...
The latest release of the insiders edition of Azure Data Studio brings the first edition of PowerShell Notebooks!
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 also look at...
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 also look at...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
Now that Azure Data Studio has PowerShell Notebooks and there is a PowerShell Module for creating notebooks. I have been asked, more than once, what is the p...
I enjoying maintaining open source GitHub repositories such as dbachecks and ADSNotebook. I absolutely love it when people add more functionality to them.
Data Science folk used Notebooks for documentation and to show re-runnable research. Azure Data Studio included this notebook functionality and added SQL ker...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
I am sat in the PowerShell Saturday in Hamburg. You can see me on the right of this picture writing [my previous blog post!](https://blog.robsewell.com/net-p...
I have always been extremely proud to be a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, and lucky enough to be involved with both the PowerShell community as well as...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use. https://beard.media/dotnetnoteboo...
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Following on from my last post about the Secret Management module. I was asked another question.
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Following on from my posts about using Secret Management Good bye Import-CliXml and running programmes as a different user, I have another use case.
Last night I started the experiment that has been in my head for a while now, to move from SQL Dba With A Beard to RobSewell.com
Last night I started the experiment that has been in my head for a while now, to move from SQL Dba With A Beard to RobSewell.com
Last night I started the experiment that has been in my head for a while now, to move from SQL Dba With A Beard to RobSewell.com
Automation T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) is hosted by a different person each month. The host selects the theme, and then the blo...
It started with a tweet
It started with a tweet
It started with a tweet