The first CU for the SQL Server 2008 RTM branch was called SQL Server 2008 RTM CU1.
Cumulative Updates are not fully regression tested like a full Service Pack is (but they have more regression testing than a stand-alone hot fix), but I have had very good luck with Cumulate Updates over the years. A SQL Server CU typically has anywhere from about ten to fifty hotfixes.
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Eight weeks after the RTM build, Microsoft will release a rollup of hot fixes called a Cumulative Update (CU). When a new major version of SQL Server (such as SQL Server 2008 R2) is released, that initial build (which is what comes on the installation media unless you have built a slipstream installation) is called the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) build.
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It might be so old that it is unsupported by Microsoft, because it is considered to be an “unsupported service pack”, meaning that Microsoft CSS will only provide limited troubleshooting support until you upgrade to a supported service pack.Īs Microsoft releases new Service Packs for SQL Server, they eventually “retire” previous branches of code for that particular major release of SQL Server. They might be running a SQL Server build that is 18, 24 or more months old. Despite this, it is still quite common to see people running very old builds of the major version of SQL Server that they are using. This is also something that SQLskills recommends on our customer engagements.
As you may be aware if you have been reading my blogs or books over the years, I am a pretty strong advocate of staying current with both SQL Server Service Packs and SQL Server Cumulative Updates.
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