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• New Servicing Model for SQL Server

  Microsoft just announced a new serving model for SQL Server starting with SQL 2017. The link below goes into much more detail so I won’t duplicate that here. However in a nutshell this means that there will be no more service packs, only CU’s (Cumulative Read More... Posted Friday, September 29, 2017 10:09 AM by Andrew Kelly | 58 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• SSMS 17.2 is now available

  The newest version of SQL Server Management Studio is now available for download. Lots of new features and fixes. The details and download links can be found here . Happy managing, Andy Kelly Read More... Posted Monday, August 7, 2017 8:17 PM by Andrew Kelly | 56 Comments Filed under: Documentation, SQL Server, Administration, SSMS

• SQL Updates Newsletter – July 2017

  SQL Updates Newsletter – July 2017 It has been a few months since my last post on these but here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month. Read More... Posted Sunday, August 6, 2017 11:30 AM by Andrew Kelly | 37 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• Free E-Books From Microsoft Again

  The Director of Sales Excellence at Microsoft is once again giving away free E-Book downloads. Apparently millions of them in fact on all sorts of topics and products. Well not millions of different E-Books but millions of them were downloaded last year Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2017 5:57 PM by Andrew Kelly | 36 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Books, SQL Server, Windows

• SQL Updates Newsletter–May 2017

  I missed posting the last few months of these but here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month. This shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Read More... Posted Thursday, June 1, 2017 10:29 AM by Andrew Kelly | 11 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2014

  Microsoft announced two new CU’s for SQL Server 2014 yesterday. Below are the links to the KB’s and some quick facts for each CU. Cumulative Update 12 for SQL Server 2014 SP1 SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #12 Quick Facts 12 Issues Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:45 AM by Andrew Kelly | 33 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, Administration, Updates

• Latest SQL Server 2014 CU Updates

  Microsoft released a few more Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2014 as listed below. There are a number of interesting fixes so I highly recommend if you have SQL Server 2014 to take a look at the list of hotfixes included in each update. SQL Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2017 8:30 AM by Andrew Kelly | 25 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• Stopping Execution of Future Batches

  There is a command that as far as I can tell has been in the product since SQL2008 but I was woefully unaware of. Actually I find many others are unaware as well and hence the blog post. The command is SET NOEXEC which has options for ON or OFF.  Read More... Posted Friday, February 17, 2017 3:09 PM by Andrew Kelly | 12 Comments Filed under: Documentation, TSQL, Developer, Administration

• SQL Updates Newsletter – January 2017

  Here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:33 AM by Andrew Kelly | 2 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• Latest SQL Server Updates

  There are some new updates for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2016 that were released today. I am not sure what happened to SQL 2014 but I suspect those will be out shortly as well. Here are the links and the associated KB’s. SQL Server 2012 Service Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2017 2:29 PM by Andrew Kelly | 19 Comments Filed under: Documentation, SQL Server, Administration, Updates

• SQL Updates Newsletter – December 2016

  Another friendly reminder about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:02 PM by Andrew Kelly | 1 Comments Filed under: Documentation, SQL Server, Updates

• SQL Server 2014 CU3 for SP2 and CU10 for SP1 are Available

  Just an FYI for those of you on SQL Server 2014 SP2 that there is a new CU available for download can can be found here . Also if you are still on SP1 for SQL Server 2014 you can get CU10 as well here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51186 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2016 5:18 PM by Andrew Kelly | 5 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, Administration, Updates

• SQL Updates Newsletter – November 2016

  This is a friendly reminder about a monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the Read More... Posted Thursday, December 1, 2016 8:44 AM by Andrew Kelly | 1 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Maintenance, Best Paractices, SQL Server, Administration

• SQL Updates and More

  A good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together a fantastic blog post each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the following: Recent Releases and Announcements Read More... Posted Monday, October 31, 2016 12:01 PM by Andrew Kelly | 3 Comments Filed under: Documentation, Best Paractices, Trivia, Tips & Tricks, SQL Server, Updates

• SQL 2016 CU2 is now Available

  Microsoft just announced that Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 is now available for download here . There are a number of fixes including one I have been looking forward to regarding the Query Store. See here for more details on that one. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:13 PM by Andrew Kelly | 371 Comments Filed under: Documentation, SQL Server, Administration, Updates