diff --git a/docs/content/configuration/index.md b/docs/content/configuration/index.md
index 25e0ed936ab9..38feb0f248d5 100644
--- a/docs/content/configuration/index.md
+++ b/docs/content/configuration/index.md
@@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ The Druid SQL server is configured through the following properties on the Broke
 
 |Property|Description|Default|
 |--------|-----------|-------|
-|`druid.sql.enable`|Whether to enable SQL at all, including background metadata fetching. If false, this overrides all other SQL-related properties and disables SQL metadata, serving, and planning completely.|false|
+|`druid.sql.enable`|Whether to enable SQL at all, including background metadata fetching. If false, this overrides all other SQL-related properties and disables SQL metadata, serving, and planning completely.|true|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.enable`|Whether to enable JDBC querying at `/druid/v2/sql/avatica/`.|true|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.maxConnections`|Maximum number of open connections for the Avatica server. These are not HTTP connections, but are logical client connections that may span multiple HTTP connections.|50|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.maxRowsPerFrame`|Maximum number of rows to return in a single JDBC frame. Setting this property to -1 indicates that no row limit should be applied. Clients can optionally specify a row limit in their requests; if a client specifies a row limit, the lesser value of the client-provided limit and `maxRowsPerFrame` will be used.|5,000|
diff --git a/docs/content/querying/sql.md b/docs/content/querying/sql.md
index 5d562f6f6990..e16fb405255e 100644
--- a/docs/content/querying/sql.md
+++ b/docs/content/querying/sql.md
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ queries on the query Broker (the first process you query), which are then passed
 queries. Other than the (slight) overhead of translating SQL on the Broker, there isn't an additional performance
 penalty versus native queries.
 
-To enable Druid SQL, make sure you have set `druid.sql.enable = true` either in your common.runtime.properties or your
-Broker's runtime.properties.
-
 ## Query syntax
 
 Each Druid datasource appears as a table in the "druid" schema. This is also the default schema, so Druid datasources
@@ -720,7 +717,7 @@ The Druid SQL server is configured through the following properties on the Broke
 
 |Property|Description|Default|
 |--------|-----------|-------|
-|`druid.sql.enable`|Whether to enable SQL at all, including background metadata fetching. If false, this overrides all other SQL-related properties and disables SQL metadata, serving, and planning completely.|false|
+|`druid.sql.enable`|Whether to enable SQL at all, including background metadata fetching. If false, this overrides all other SQL-related properties and disables SQL metadata, serving, and planning completely.|true|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.enable`|Whether to enable JDBC querying at `/druid/v2/sql/avatica/`.|true|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.maxConnections`|Maximum number of open connections for the Avatica server. These are not HTTP connections, but are logical client connections that may span multiple HTTP connections.|25|
 |`druid.sql.avatica.maxRowsPerFrame`|Maximum number of rows to return in a single JDBC frame. Setting this property to -1 indicates that no row limit should be applied. Clients can optionally specify a row limit in their requests; if a client specifies a row limit, the lesser value of the client-provided limit and `maxRowsPerFrame` will be used.|5,000|
diff --git a/sql/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/sql/guice/SqlModule.java b/sql/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/sql/guice/SqlModule.java
index fc7e0da54e0d..d1f3bfc89cb5 100644
--- a/sql/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/sql/guice/SqlModule.java
+++ b/sql/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/sql/guice/SqlModule.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public void configure(Binder binder)
   private boolean isEnabled()
   {
     Preconditions.checkNotNull(props, "props");
-    return Boolean.valueOf(props.getProperty(PROPERTY_SQL_ENABLE, "false"));
+    return Boolean.valueOf(props.getProperty(PROPERTY_SQL_ENABLE, "true"));
   }
 
   private boolean isJsonOverHttpEnabled()