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Cumulative Update 8 6/18/2008 12:34:22 PM

SQL Server 2005 Cumulative Update 8 release recently.

Found out that CU8 is available, looks like it may address some issues we are experiencing, hopefully all will test out well, i really wish they were releaseing this sql server service pack 3...this is an indication to me that there are more issues and testing yet to be rooled into SP3.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951217

http://robbieroberts.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/cumulative-update-package-8-for-sql-2005-sp2/ 

Interestingly we are on CU6, because we had issues with CU7.

Up to CU6, I always believed in applying and being on the latest CU, if possible (not in peak, time to apply through dev and qa).

After the issue we saw with CU7, I'm now of the opinion of being more cautions and trying to determine if the issues in the CU are resolving problems we experience, than apply it.

CU 8 needs consideration, there are two that may affect us, and others on our polyserve environment, these are the significant ones I find.

FIX: The compilation time of some queries is very long in an x64-based version of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953569/LN/

FIX: The performance of a query in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 6 is slow

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953721/LN/

50002710 953841 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953841/LN/) FIX: E-mail replies are sent to the sender address instead of to the address that is specified in the database mail profile in SQL Server 2005 after you install the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

50002753 The Database Mail feature in SQL Server 2005 may access data in the memory that is already freed


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