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.
SentryOne 19.2 delivers Azure SQL Database Top SQL enhancements, new Top SQL memory allocation columns, and columnstore and In-Memory OLTP memory counters.
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.
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.