SQL Server 2005 SP3 Beta is available!

SQL Server / SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2005 SP3 Beta is available!

Aaron Bertrand October 31st, 2008 SQL Server / SQL Server 2005 2

Okay, it happened a couple of days ago; sorry for not noticing. But SQL Server Release Services / Sustained Engineering has announced that an SP3 Beta has been made available. The build is 9.00.4028 and you can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D22317E1-BC64-4936-A14B-7A632B50A4CA

This is earlier than I expected, and is probably why, unlike previous cumulative updates, no advanced KB article was produced for CU11 after CU10 (9.00.3294) was released.

Aaron Bertrand

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AaronBertrand says:

October 31, 2008 at 11:40 PM

Thanks Chris. That's weird, because I have performed a search for it several times, and came up empty. Maybe Google was not liking my browser choice those days.
Surprising that they are already planning CU11 for SP2 when (based on Hugo's connect item at least) a lot of people will already be on SP3 by then. 🙂
Chris Wood says:

October 31, 2008 at 4:51 PM

CU11 KB has been out there since CU10 was announced. See http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/ and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958735/
Chris