@cconrad@ac just so you know what we are seeing on this end,

"We send out these critical announcements to both the yellow box and as an admin message to the group inboxes." I did not see this in the yellow box but I will say I do not log out and back in very often. I am one that doesn't necessarily ignore the yellow box, if you don't log in and out you don't see the message in this highlighted area.

"We also sent emails to every practice for this sine it was important." I did not get an email. There is only one email address that AC should have on file for my account. I have checked my inbox, spam and trash but none of these have an email from AC regarding this update.

The only message I saw was the one I posted with a screen shot above.
I am not sure that the message for SQL update went out the way you are thinking. I am not trying to call you out just want you to know that we may not be getting the message the way AC is intending. Thank You for posting here and getting back to us.