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Ok here is the hot news for SQL 2005 users!!! From the Are you ready for SP3 post  here, it has been officially announced the SP3 for SQL Server 2005 will be available in CY2008 (calender year 2008) that means before 31st December 2008! More from this DataInsider blog post.  

Here is another candidate of 7 within Cumulative Update service for SQL Server 2005 SP2. SQL Server Release Services team has announced (yesterday) that another instalment of Cumulative Update (series here) for SQL Server 2005 on Service Pack 2, it is not easy decision for User Community to apply with CU than going Service Pack release which ...

I'm a keen follower of trying out new versions & products (IT), in this regard recently installed Internet Explorer 8 which is under Beta 1 at the moment. The referred link will already noted the known issues and workarounds, but not an easy out way to find to uninstall the installed version. Before that what I would like to give a ...

You may be aware that MVPs have the advantage of getting to know about the product information before it is let to the user community, that is the main advantage (I feel) to make the most of MVP award experience, Microsoft keeps MVPs informed of award benefits, updates, news about their peers, and events that are occurring in their region and ...

Whenever a service pack is released it will be available for 32-bit and 64-bit that also includes for SQL Express 2005 edition too, as it was for MSDE earlier. Since last year (I think) Microsoft Development team has adopted a standard in naming schema for all service pack updates aka they call it now as a software update packages for ...

If you remember we have blogged about release of Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server Service Pack 2 since it has been declared to be available on download, CUpdate4-SQL2005SP2 is the one I'm referring. So is it is available for download (released recently), now here it comes another wait episode for cumulative update package 5 for SQL Server 2005 ...