![]() ![]() We recommend applying the most recent service pack and cumulative update in your development, QA, and staging environments first. If you’re patching SQL 2012-2014, things get a little trickier. Go ahead and apply the most recent service pack and cumulative update, and your patching work will be done for quite a while. If you’re patching an older server (SQL 2005-2008R2), know that the patching frequency has pretty much stopped. If you’re building a new SQL 2012-2014 server from scratch, apply the most recent service pack and cumulative update. Here are the questions we get most often about SQL Server service packs and cumulative updates: What’s the difference between a service pack, cumulative update, and a hotfix?Ī hotfix fixes a single issue, and hasn’t been extensively tested.Ī cumulative update is a rollup of several hotfixes, and has been tested as a group.Ī service pack is a rollup of several cumulative updates, and in theory, has been tested even more than cumulative updates. ![]()
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