The latest version of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio 17.3) is now available to download. There are a bunch of new features in addition to the usual bug fixes but some of the more popular ones are a new wizard to import flat files, increased SMO & PowerShell support along with additions to the Query Store UI.  The full list is ...

  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 Updates) and GDR’s (General Distribution Release).  A GDR contains only security ...

  There are a couple of new CU’s for SQL Server 2016 that you should be aware of as it looks like there are a number of nasty looking bugs fixed. There is CU5 for 2016 SP1 and CU8 for 2016 RTM.         SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU5         SQL Server 2016 RTM CU8 Happy ...

  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

    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. This shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to ...

  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 Server which include but are not limited to the following: Recent Releases and ...

  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 2014 SP1 CU11 SQL 2014 SP2 CU4 Happy patching, Andy

  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 following: Recent Releases and Announcements Recent White Papers, E-Books, Training and ...

  There was a slight issue with the SSMS version that was released a few days back (16.5.2) which has been fixed and replaced with release 16.5.3. If you want the latest SQL Server SSMS 2016 release or if you already loaded the 5.2 version you should get this one. SSMS 2016 Version 16.5.3 Andy

  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 Pack 2 CU16 – KB3205054 SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 CU7   – KB3205051 SQL ...