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Aaron is a senior consultant for SQL Sentry, Inc., makers of performance monitoring and event management software for SQL Server, Analysis Services, and Windows. He has been blogging here at sqlblog.com since 2006, focusing on manageability, performance, and new features; has been a Microsoft MVP since 1997; tweets as @AaronBertrand; and speaks frequently at user group meetings and SQL Saturday events.

New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 SP1 & R2!

Well, this is the first time in a long time that I've blogged about cumulative updates for two different versions of SQL Server on the same day.  Yesterday Microsoft released a cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 SP1 (bringing you to 10.0.2775), and a corresponding cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM (bringing you from 10.50.1600 to 10.50.1702).  You can read more about these updates here:

Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM
(KB #981355)

Cumulative Update #8 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
(KB #981702)

Note that the cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 R2 is merely a rollup of the updates found in cumulative updates 5, 6 and 7 for 2008 SP1 - it does not include several of the fixes from CU #8 for 2008 SP1.  I would expect to see a continued pattern of bugs relevant to both versions being fixed in one branch, and not rolled into the other until the subsequent update (and where it appears first will depend on where it was discovered).

Published Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:01 PM by AaronBertrand

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Twitter Trackbacks for Aaron Bertrand : New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 SP1 & R2! [sqlblog.com] on Topsy.com said:

May 18, 2010 8:35 PM
 

Chris Wood said:

It makes sense that the R2 CU's come out at the same time as the SQL2008 CU's rather than with the SQL2005 CU's. I had seen the CU8 but missed the first one for R2.

Thanks

Chris

May 19, 2010 11:53 AM
 

Paul White said:

Good to see that annoying COUNT_BIG...OVER bug squished at last.

May 21, 2010 9:12 AM
 

Aaron Bertrand said:

Okay, I'm following the lead of Joe Webb ( blog | twitter ), who recently posted " My Most Popular Posts

January 28, 2011 4:09 PM
 

Installing the SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Community Technology Preview » The Full Circle Blog said:

May 14, 2011 9:53 AM

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