Last night, the SQL Server Release Services Team published Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2008 SP2:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582285 There are 13 fixes listed, and the build # is 10.00.4321. NOTE: This cumulative update is NOT for SQL Server 2008 R2.  

This evening Microsoft released cumulative update #16 for SQL Server 2008 SP1:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582282/There are only seven fixes listed, and the build # is 10.00.2850. NOTE: This update is NOT for SQL Server 2008 R2.  

Yesterday Microsoft made available Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008. This allows you to test the service pack in your test or QA environments before deploying the eventual final release, and also to provide feedback to Microsoft about potential issues with the service pack. The build number is ...

In addition to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU1, Microsoft today also released cumulative updates for the SQL Server2008 branches (Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2). You can download these updates from the following KB articles:KB #2555406 : Cumulative update package 15 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1(Build number = 10.00.2847)KB #2555408 : ...

Today Microsoft has released cumulative updates for both SQL Server 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008 SP2. SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 KB #2527187 : Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 There are 10 fixes listed for this update, and the build # is 10.00.2821.SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 KB #2527180 : Cumulative Update #4 for ...

On Monday, the SQL Server Release Services team released cumulative updates for both SQL Server 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008 SP2.  The cumulative update for SP2 restores the fixes that were potentially undone by applying SP2 (or the SP2 CTP) after applying CU9 or CU10 to SP1.  Confusing, yes, but at least it's straightened out now.  ...

I'm not going to blab about the speculation, or how Microsoft seems to like making their promised deadlines by the skin of their teeth.  I'm too busy preparing how we're going to deploy and test SP2 on all of our SQL Server 2008 instances.  So without any delay, here are the downloads / fix information:Download Details: Microsoft SQL ...

Last night Microsoft released Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #10:KB #2279604 : Cumulative update package 10 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 The build number is 10.00.2799 and there seem to be some interesting fixes included if you browse through them.  But at least on first glance and at the gut level, I'm less interested in the fixes, ...

Ola's Index Maintenance scripts On August 3rd, Ola Hallengren (blog) released a substantial update to his Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization scripts - allowing you to more finely tune the object selection process.  Over this past weekend he also updated the error handling to get around some blocking issues.  For information ...

Yesterday, a conversation on twitter reminded me that I haven't been keeping up with posting cumulative updates.  I missed these updates for SQL Server 2008 on March 15:Cumulative Update #7 for SQL Server 2008 SP1 (10.00.2766)Cumulative Update #10 for SQL Server 2008 RTM (10.00.1835) And yesterday Glenn Berry (blog | twitter) was the first I ...