{"id":5883,"date":"2009-02-23T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:51:57","slug":"ctp-for-service-pack-1-of-sql-server-2008-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/ctp-for-service-pack-1-of-sql-server-2008-available\/","title":{"rendered":"CTP for Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008 Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are excited to announce the availability of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f26fc45-f0ca-49cf-a6ee-840c7e8bb8af\">Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008<\/a>. This scheduled servicing release addresses feedback received from many of you who have deployed SQL Server 2008 since our release back in August 2008.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We take every update to SQL Server very seriously and we are especially pleased that in reviewing the changes being made with this service pack that we have reinforced our confidence(and hopefully yours!) in the quality of the initial release of SQL Server 2008. We know that some of you wait for the first service pack of any new software product, and hopefully with this update you will have even more insight and confidence in our engineering and quality assurance practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We remain <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/sqlreleaseservices\/archive\/2008\/04\/27\/a-changed-approach-to-service-packs.aspx\">committed <\/a> to keeping service packs contained, focusing on essential updates only, primarily a roll-up of Cumulative Update 1 to 3, Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) updates, as well as fixes to issues reported through the SQL Server community. While keeping product changes contained, we have made significant investments to ease deployment and management of service packs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slipstream \u2013 You are now able to integrate the base installation with service packs (or Hotfixes) and install in a single step.<\/li>\n<li>Service Pack Uninstall \u2013 You are now able to uninstall only the service pack (without removing the whole instance)<\/li>\n<li>Report Builder 2.0 Click Once capability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We encourage you to try out SP1, and send us your feedback. We actively read all feedback and appreciate any thoughts that you might have to help us with product updates.\u00a0 Please go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/SQLServer\/Feedback\">Connect Feedback Center<\/a> to provide feedback. Continue to watch this blog for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>With the upcoming general availability of SP1, it\u2019s a good time for any of you that are still running SQL Server 2005 (or even SQL Server 2000) to take a look at the great enhancements and benefits that SQL Server 2008 provides. There are a lot of new capabilities that maybe you haven\u2019t had a chance to explore such as Compression, Auditing, Policy Based Management, Resource Governor, Change Data Capture, Transparent Data Encryption and many more Database, Reporting, Warehousing and Analytics improvements that you can read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2008\/en\/us\/overview.aspx\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and we look forward to releasing SP1 soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are excited to announce the availability of our Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008. 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