Lesson learned. If you get a new credit card you need to tell your provider quickly because there are some of them who will not give you much time and will delete your blog AND the backups

Here’s me starting over, by telling you that I’m a SQL Server consultant based in the Netherlands. I’m a SQL Server MVP and I’m the co-founder and current chairman of the Dutch PASS Chapter and a member of the volunteer team for the Dutch SQL Saturday’s. I’ve done a whole lot of pure DBA work managing 100′s of servers and learning something new every day.

These days I spend a lot of time on just a few servers containing some large databases and the better part of the day is spent with SSIS.
In both roles I’ve been using Powershell a lot. I joke sometimes that I replaced myself with a powershell script when leaving the DBA role, but these days I automate so much that I have to watch myself and not actually do just that

The picture is me speaking at the Baltic Techdays, the coolest speaker gift ever…