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!

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• SQL Server 2005 SP2 Express Edition
• SQL Server Service Pack Strategy

• A changed approach to Service Packs

  In reference to the recent announcement of a Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 I wanted to take some time and elaborate a bit over a modified development approach we’ll be taking for SQL Server Servicing releases. With our recent SP3 announcement we Read More... Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:26 PM by matthiab | 9 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Service Pack Strategy

• SQL Server Express 2005 is now supported by XPe and WEPOS platforms

  We have received numerous customer requests for supporting SQL Server 2005 on XPe and WEPOS. Listening to your requests, we are now happy to announce the support for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition starting with Service Pack 2 on Windows XP Embedded Service Read More... Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 5:15 PM by SavithaP | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 SP2 Express Edition

• Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is available

  Per previously announced revised Servicing Model we released the second scheduled cumulative update for SQL Server 2005 to the support organization earlier this week. Build number is 3175. Information on this cumulative update (CU): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936305 Read More... Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 5:25 AM by matthiab | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005

• SQL Server Express 2005 now supported by XPe and WEPOS platforms

  We have received numerous customer requests for supporting SQL Server 2005 on XPe and WEPOS. Listening to your requests, we are now happy to announce the support for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition starting with Service Pack 2 on Windows XP Embedded Service Read More... Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 6:21 PM by SavithaP | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005

• SQL Server Hotfix Release Revised

  In response to customer feedback, SQL Server team has revised the mechanism to deliver hotfixes on reported bugs with a new model called Incremental Servicing Model (ISM). The objective is to deliver high quality fixes within an acceptable amount of time Read More... Posted Friday, April 06, 2007 11:17 PM by Keith Fang | 6 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005

• SQL 2005 SP2 - delivered!

  Months of effort by hundreds of people (including many of you, I'm sure) culminated this morning in the release of SQL 2005 SP2 . This was a servicing release defined and driven largely by your feedback and bug reports. There are also some big ticket Read More... Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 4:10 PM by GrantC | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005