diff --git a/extensions/mssql/package.json b/extensions/mssql/package.json
index 6880f8decc..ce695dd498 100644
--- a/extensions/mssql/package.json
+++ b/extensions/mssql/package.json
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
         "mssql.parallelMessageProcessing": {
           "type": "boolean",
           "description": "%mssql.parallelMessageProcessing%",
-          "default": false
+          "default": true
         }
       }
     },