Alan Yu announces a new version of SQL Operations Studio:
Take a moment to breathe, this is a loaded update.
The March Public Preview release is focused on improving our Extensibility story and continuing to address top GitHub issues. This includes enabling Extension Manager, improving the Manage Dashboard experience and providing a couple Insights extensions. Please see the following details.
Enhance the Manage Dashboard extensibility model to support tabbed Insights and Configuration panes
Dashboard Insights extensions for sp_whoisactive from whoisactive.com and a Server Reports example
Extension Manager enables simple acquisition of 1st-party and 3rd-party extensions
Add additional Extensibility APIs for connection and objectexplorer management
Community Localization open for 10 languages
Continue to fix important customer impacting GitHub issues
There’s some nice stuff in this release, but the big story is around extensibility.