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, ...