Ron the Polymath notes a change slipped into Windows:
The October 2020 Preview releases of Windows builds 1809 (KB4580390), 1903/1909 (KB4580386), and 2004/20H2 (KB4580364) include the following change:
– Adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 and 1.2 protocols when connecting to SQL Server using the data providers in Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC).
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