SQL ConstantCare

In this quarter’s update of our SQL ConstantCare® population report, showing how quickly (or slowly) folks adopt new versions of SQL Server, the data is very similar to last quarter: SQL Server 2025: exactly 1 server being monitored, heh. God bless y’all for giving it a shot this early. SQL Server 2022: 25%, up from 24%…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2025

Last Updated July 16, 2025

In this quarter’s update of our SQL ConstantCare® population report, showing how quickly (or slowly) folks adopt new versions of SQL Server, the data is very similar to last quarter. SQL Server 2019 still rules the market: SQL Server 2022: 24%, up from 21% last quarter SQL Server 2019: 45%, was 44% SQL Server 2017: 11%,…

SQL ConstantCare Badges

Last Updated May 8, 2025

SQL ConstantCare™, our monitoring app that gives you a simple daily email with actionable tasks to make your servers faster and more reliable, is about to start sending out monthly awards! On the first weekday of each month, we’ll email the winners with their gold, silver, and bronze badges. Well, I say badges – some…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2025

Last Updated February 8, 2025

Every quarter, we publish adoption rate data showing how quickly people are adopting new versions of SQL Server. Today it’s time for the winter 2025 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. SQL Server 2022 is finally seeing some good adoption with about 21% of the market. It’s gradually taking market share from all other…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Fall 2024

Last Updated November 19, 2024

Every quarter, we publish adoption rate data showing how quickly people are adopting new versions of SQL Server. Today it’s time for the fall 2024 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. SQL Server 2019 is still the king of the hill with almost 3X more market share than any other version! Here’s how adoption…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2024 (And Upcoming Gamification Badges)

Last Updated August 16, 2024

The short story: SQL Server 2022 finally saw some growth this quarter! Two years after the release, 1 in 10 SQL Servers is finally running the latest version. The long story: ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates? Let’s find…

Announcing Free SQL Server Monitoring.

Last Updated July 17, 2024

You already use sp_Blitz and the rest of the free, open source First Responder Kit to give your SQL Servers a health check now and then. But let’s be honest: you don’t do it often enough. You wish you had an easier way to know when your backups stop working, when corruption strikes, when a…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2024

Last Updated May 8, 2024

The short story: SQL Server 2019 appears poised to swallow the SQL Server market altogether, hahaha. The long story: ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates? Let’s find out in the winter 2023 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report.…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Fall 2023

Last Updated October 18, 2023

The short story for this quarter: SQL Server 2019 is on fire, dominating the market. For the long story: ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates? Let’s find out in the summer 2023 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report.…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2023

Last Updated July 7, 2023

The short story for this quarter: SQL Server 2022 adoption rates have stalled, even backtracked, and it doesn’t appear to be due to the cloud, either. For the long story: ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates? Let’s find out…

Why Are Y’all Changing the Compat Levels on Master?

Last Updated June 16, 2023

One of the things I love about SQL ConstantCare® (which happens to be free this month, by the way) is that I can keep in touch with what y’all are actually doing on your production servers. Today’s lesson was a complete shocker to me: some of y’all are changing the compatibility level on the master…

The SQL Server Advice You Don’t Wanna Hear

Last Updated May 25, 2023

One of the big principles of our SQL ConstantCare® monitoring product – which happens to be free this month – is that we only wanna tell you things you’re actually gonna take action on. Anytime we email you advice, there a few “Mute” links that you can click on to never hear this advice. You…

AWS Aurora Cut Our Database Costs for SQL ConstantCare® – Again.

Last Updated May 25, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL ConstantCare

In May, Amazon brought out a new Aurora I/O Optimized Serverless instance type. By switching to it, we cut our database costs by 43% overnight, saving us about $1,200 per month. No strings attached. Just lower prices. So what’s the magic? Well, customers of our SQL ConstantCare® service send us diagnostic data every day for…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2023

Last Updated July 7, 2023

Ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates? Let’s find out in the spring 2023 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. Out of 3,002 monitored servers, here’s the version adoption rate: The big 3 versions are all within 1% of…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2022

Last Updated December 25, 2022

Ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out in the winter 2022 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. Out of 3,679 monitored servers, here’s the version adoption rate: The big ones:…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2022

Last Updated August 29, 2022

Ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out in the summer 2022 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. Out of the 3,151 servers sending in data recently, the most popular version…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 2021

Last Updated July 12, 2021

Ever wonder how fast people are adopting new versions of SQL Server, or what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out in the summer 2021 version of our SQL ConstantCare® population report. Out of the 3,808 servers sending in data recently, the most popular version…

New SQL ConstantCare® Feature: One Serious Query to Tune

Last Updated February 20, 2021

Our monitoring tool, SQL ConstantCare®, is different. Some monitoring tools send you a whole bunch of emails for every little thing that’s happening on every one of your server – and having you end up just creating an Outlook rule to dump them all into a folder that you never read. PAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY IS…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Fall 2020

Last Updated December 7, 2020