Aaron Bertrand

Aaron (@AaronBertrand) is a Data Platform MVP with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. He is editor-in-chief of the performance-related blog, SQLPerformance.com. Aaron's blog focuses on T-SQL bad habits and best practices, as well as coverage of updates and new features in Plan Explorer, SentryOne, and SQL Server.

Articles by Aaron Bertrand

SentryOne 19.2 delivers Azure SQL Database Top SQL enhancements, new Top SQL memory allocation columns, and columnstore and In-Memory OLTP memory counters.
October 16, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Sentry, SentryOne, DB Sentry 0
Aaron Bertrand shares his slides and demos from his session at Music City Data in Nashville, TN.
September 8, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | Demos, Community, Slide Decks 1
Technical Product Manager Aaron Bertrand describes the improvements in the latest version of SentryOne Plan Explorer, 19.1.2.
September 6, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Sentry, Plan Explorer 0
Aaron Bertrand announces the first update (0.9.6) to the SentryOne Plan Explorer extension for Azure Data Studio. Find out what's in it and how to get it.
Aaron Bertrand talks about Learning Pathways, a new, innovative way to take advantage of the sessions offered at PASS Summit.
May 28, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | PASS Summit 0
Aaron Bertrand shares his slides and demos from his most recent presentations at SQLDay in Wrocław, Poland.
May 15, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | Demos, Community, Slide Decks 0
Aaron Bertrand announces that he is among the handful of community members in the inaugural group of official bloggers at PASS Summit 2019.
May 6, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | PASS Summit 0
Aaron Bertrand shares his slide decks and demos from two recent presentations at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN.
April 13, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | T-SQL, CodeStock, SQL Server 0
Product Manager Aaron Bertrand talks about the three improvements in the latest version of SentryOne Plan Explorer, 19.0.2.
March 13, 2019 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Sentry, Plan Explorer 4
Aaron Bertrand announces the recipient of his third annual Community Influencer of the Year award.
December 28, 2018 | Aaron Bertrand | Community 4
Aaron Bertrand provides his deck and demos for a GroupBy presentation on SQL Server 2019, and makes up for some serious demo disasters.
Aaron Bertrand shares his slides and demos from his sessions at SQLintersection in Las Vegas.
December 6, 2018 | Aaron Bertrand | Demos, Community, Slide Decks 0
Microsoft has pulled several patches for older versions of SQL Server. If you need TLS 1.2 support and can't move to a formally supported version, your recourse is to contact Microsoft support.
November 17, 2018 | Aaron Bertrand | Security 50
Product Manager Aaron Bertrand talks about the two improvements in the latest version of SentryOne Plan Explorer, 18.5.1.
November 1, 2018 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Sentry, Plan Explorer 0
On October 9th, we released SentryOne Plan Explorer 18.5, with five features and fixes. Read on for more details.
October 9, 2018 | Aaron Bertrand | Plan Explorer, SentryOne 0

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