SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Summer 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 of SQL Server is still 2016:

This will be the last version of the report where I’ll break out 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 separately. Going forward, I’ll just lump ’em under “2012 & Prior” since they’ll add up to even less the next