Installing SQL DATA LENS does not disturb an existing Caché Monitor installation. The two keep their user data in different folders, so you can run them alongside each other for as long as the transition takes.
Where each version stores its data
Caché Monitor stores all user data in a folder named .cm in your user home directory, for example C:\Users\Andreas\.cm.
SQL DATA LENS stores all user data in a folder named .sqldl.
Because the folder names differ, neither version can overwrite the other’s settings. Both continue to work with their own connections, layout and history.
What happens on first start
The first time SQL DATA LENS starts, it copies your registered connections and your licence key from .cm into .sqldl. You do not have to re-enter server details or re-activate — everything you had configured in Caché Monitor appears in the Server Navigator straight away.
The copy runs in one direction only. Changes you make afterwards in SQL DATA LENS stay in .sqldl, and changes you make in Caché Monitor stay in .cm. If you keep using both for a while, remember that a connection added on one side will not appear on the other.
Both folders live in your own user profile — nothing is written outside it, and no administrator rights are needed. See security and privacy for what the tool does and does not do with your data.
Once you are ready to work in SQL DATA LENS only, the .cm folder can be archived or deleted. The current release is on the download page.