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Cumulative Update package 2 has now been released for SQL Server 2008. See the following KB article for full details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958186/en-us

Another set of Cumulative Update package is ready for review on SQL Server 2008 - this package contains hotfixes for the issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. Earlier posting on Cumulative Update Package 1 for SQL 2008 one of the user asked me how to find out how many update packages were released after SQL Server 2008 ...

First one in the series of SQL Server 2008 version, here it comes Cumulative Update package 1! What kind of fixtures are available in this CU1 package?  Cumulative Update 1 contains hotfixes for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. After you apply this CU1 on SQL 2008 instance ...

In continuation to the CumulativeUpdate package posts here for SQL Server 2005 SP2 we have another set of cumulative update package no.9 ready for testing. TO obtain this read the notes from Microsoft: .... Apply it only to systems that are experiencing these specific problems. This cumulative update package may receive additional testing. ...

I felt like somehow I missed to post the availability of Cumulative Update package releases here and referring the last CU7_Update package blogpost now we have CU8 available for download if the specified problem occurs in your platform as per the KBA 951217 here. Obviously this is for the installations that will have SQL Server 2005 SP2 and ...

We have been struggling to uninstall the Cumulative Update package 7 on a development SQL Server! As it is an important aspect of installation to rollback or to have a backout plan tested if you are performing any kind of installation against your Production Server, not to mention its a best practice too. Until now most ...

Secured by default, secured by design is the buzzword and catchy stuff for any Enterprise IT administrators. Then it comes about standards and policies to follow such as ISO , with the recent threats (last 10 years) and vulnerabilities within IT world it is most important factor you need to follow as per the compliance standards that are ...

IN continuation to the post Rollback_of_CumulativeUpdate-hotfix-ServicePack I was asked about any procedure or steps on installing Cumulative update package 7 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on Active node SQL 2005 cluster. The simple answer is all of such hotfix/Service Pack/Cumulative Update packages are cluster-aware. That means when ...

To cut the long story short, during a recent implementation of Cumulative Update 6 and 7 on a particular 'application domain' server we have had major application issues due to a mix up of application code & these SQL cumulative update fixes. Actually this server was not under our support structure that would definetly go ...

Here is the hot news, SQL Server Global Release Services (GRS) has revised their schedule of releasing Service Packs for SQL Server product by stating 'changed approach to Service Packs'. Now the big question how far you can stretch in deploying these service pack releases within your Enterprise database platform to deploy frequent service pack ...