ReviewMyDB

Jeff Taylor is a Principal Data Consultant, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Redgate Community Ambassador, and Octopus Insider with over 28 years of experience specializing in performance tuning and critical data issues. He currently organizes the Jax Data and Data of Data Jacksonville (formerly SQL Saturday) and is a co-organizer of JaxDUG.

Skills: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric, DevOps, C#

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SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression and Restore Review

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Jeff Taylor

SQL Server 2025 In my previous blog post, we briefly covered the new compression being introduced in SQL Server 2025. After some...

2025-08-26

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SQL Server 2025 Backups - New ZSTD Compression

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Jeff Taylor

Compression was introduced in SQL Server version 2008. While it helped, the compression ratios were frequently too low to justify the...

2025-08-13

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How To Call Microsoft Graph API From SQL Server

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Jeff Taylor

Calling APIs directly from SQL Server has been available in Azure SQL DB since 2022, but now it's available in on-prem in SQL Server 2025...

2025-07-03

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How To Call APIs From SQL Server

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Jeff Taylor

Calling an API has been in Azure SQL since 2022, but it was only recently added to SQL Server 2025 Preview. This new feature...

2025-07-01

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How To Test SQL Server Disk IO Throughput

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Jeff Taylor

When managing large databases or high-transactional databases, the performance of your underlying storage system is crucial, whether it...

2025-06-18

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Are Your Disks Lagging?

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Jeff Taylor

Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...

2025-06-17

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Cloud Provider Outage!

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Jeff Taylor

Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down! When local data centers were the primary source...

2025-06-12

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New Azure VMs that perform close to on-prem servers?!

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Jeff Taylor

Working with large databases, multi-terabyte in size, I've had clients who have wanted to move to the cloud. However, after testing and...

2025-06-12

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Getting Started with SQL Server 2025 Public Preview: A Step-by-Step Installation Guide

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Jeff Taylor

A step-by-step guide to installing SQL Server 2025 Private Preview.

2025-06-04

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Uninstall PolyBase from SQL Server

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Jeff Taylor

If you have SQL Server 2019 or SQL Server 2022 installed with PolyBase and you try to install SQL Server 2025, it will fail during...

2025-05-24

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Blogs

VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...

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These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...

Free Webinar about Columnstore Indexes

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I’m doing a small series on indexing basics for SQL Server, and on May...

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Question of the Day

SSoL Support on the OS

On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?

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