Rob Sewell

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Rob was a SQL Server DBA with a passion for PowerShell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). Now he just helps people make things. He is a Cloud and Data Center MVP and a Data Platform MVP, co-leader of Data South West UK User Group 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, he is often out riding his bike as his eyes are not good enough to play cricket any more He has a fabulous beard

Sessions

Introduction to Pester-TDD for PowerShell
Start from nothing and use Test Driven Development to write a PowerShell function that uses the Microsoft Cognitive Services API to analyse pictures. I will take you on a journey from nothing to a complete function
Advice and guidance on becoming a speaker or volunteer
Want to become a community speaker or involved in the SQL Community? Don't feel confident enough to try? Need some advice and guidance? We want to help you, we will help you
Validate Your SQL Server Estate with Ease Using dbachecks
Learn how you can validate your SQL Server estate with ease using dbachecks
SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA
While you might have read about notebooks being used for Data Science, this session is for DBAs. You will see how you can use SQL Notebooks to simplify your work.
How To Start Collaborating With A GitHub Repository
Wanted to join with open-source projects but don’t know how? This quick session will give you all that you need to start doing so.
Creating Azure SQL Db Users with an SPN using Azure DevOps
This session will take you through the steps required to build an automated solution to create an Azure SQL Database with a Service Principal and create users and apply permissions
10 Productivity tools in 20 minutes
You are busy, we are busy, everyone is busy. These are the tools that two busy consultants use to improve their productivity. We want to tell you about the tools that we use; that maximise our time, simplify our life, reduce our key strokes and generally make us appear more amazing. So that you can use them too. We have 20 minutes, so we wont go into much detail but we have some good quick stories to tell.
There is a time and a place for everything
There is a time and a place for everything. John and Rob, being consultants, often say "Well, it depends" Lets talk about some of the times when the "rules" may not fit
Keynote by the Community
Join Rob and Ben for a fun filled hour from the community for the community as they invite a concatenation of community experts on stage and let them show us what their favorite data platform feature is and why!
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