
SQL Server 2016 End of Support: What Your Monitoring Should Do About the July 14 Cliff
On July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 leaves extended support, the same month Microsoft's surviving SQL tooling has gone paid, Azure-first, and Windows-only, with AWS force-upgrading any remaining RDS 2016 instances to 2019 that September. Here's what your monitoring should do about the version cliff, and how the Microsoft SQL Server Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager flags what's stranded and follows your databases to 2017 through 2025 on Windows and Linux.


