The Global Release Services team within the SQL Server organization is a central team providing a variety of services to one of the biggest development organizations in the world. We drive a lot of processes and business decisions which significantly impact both, our internal operations as well as our customers world wide. This blog is intended to share some of this information with you straight from the source, drive interaction as well as to solicit your feedback on particular topics for us to make better decisions for you!

December 2008 - Posts

• Cumulative Update #1 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

  Keep your system up to date with the most recent cumulative update package for SQL Server 2005 SP3. This package is only intended for customers who are going to be upgrading from SQL Server 2005 SP2 CU#10 or SP2 CU#11 to SP3. You will have to install Read More... Posted Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:41 AM by mmonico | 4 Comments

• SQL Server 2005 SP3 - Released

  On Dec 15th 2008, we released the latest Service Pack on SQL Server 2005. In line with the changed strategy presented a while back on this blog, the latest Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 laid more emphasis on supportability, watson and community voted Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:22 PM by NosheenS | 8 Comments

• Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

  Keep your system up to date with the most recent cumulative update package for SQL Server 2005 SP2. This package contains all of the SQL Server 2005 hotfixes that have been released since the initial release of SQL Server 2005 SP2. CU#11 KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958735/en-us Read More... Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 11:07 PM by chwill | 2 Comments