Jeff Taylor

Consultant, Speaker & Community Leader

🏆 Data Platform

United States 1 year as MVP Database Consulting, LLC Official Profile

📋 Biography

Jeff Taylor is a Principal Data Consultant, Microsoft MVP, Redgate Community Ambassador, and Octopus Insider with over 27 years of experience specializing in performance tuning and critical data issues. He currently organizes Jax Data and SQL Saturday Jacksonville and is the Jacksonville Development Users Group co-organizer.

✨ High-Impact Contributions 1

How To Call APIs From SQL Server

This blog walks through new sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint feature in SQL Server 2025, which enables direct API calls from within SQL Server stored procedures. In this blog I show the real world solution I put together to retrieve Eventbrite attendee data for SQL Saturday, replacing an Azure Data Factory process that we previously used.

Blog

Jul 2025

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Technology Focus

Azure SQL (Database, Pools, Serverless, Hyperscale, Managed Instance, Virtual Machines) SQL Server (on Windows, Linux, Containers)

Functional Roles

Consultant

Languages

🌐 English

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Contributions 1

Events 0

Social profiles 10

Years as MVP 1