Microsoft has committed publicly to releasing Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005. Francois Ajenstat first talked about it very recently here. While there were some casual mentions of the release in some responses to Connect items, I wanted to be sure it was truly public knowledge before I gave it higher visibility. You should expect it in Q4 of this year, after SQL Server 2008 is released.
SQL Server 2005 SP3 is publicly confirmed
April 15th, 20086
By: Aaron Bertrand
I am a passionate technologist with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. I am a long-time Microsoft MVP, write at Simple Talk, SQLPerformance, and MSSQLTips, and have had the honor of speaking at more conferences than I can remember. In non-tech life, I am a husband, a father of two, a huge hockey and football fan, and my pronouns are he/him.
Awesome. MS should continue the SP program for SQL until the CU packages are fully cluster-aware. Partial recovery (ie adding a node) in a Win2003/SQL2005 cluster is a PITA when you have any CU package installed. You have to uninstall them to install any SP so the turnaround time is longer than it should be. Just my .02…
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Yeee-haw!!!
Yah!!
Someone notify Hugo, stat!!
I am so glad that Microsoft finally caved on this and agreed to put out SP3.
Hi Aaron
Great news. Finally we will have SP3.Thanks and have a great MVP Summit