{"id":6443,"date":"2008-04-27T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2008\/04\/27\/understanding-the-new-approach-to-service-packs\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:51:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:51:32","slug":"understanding-the-new-approach-to-service-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/understanding-the-new-approach-to-service-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the new approach to Service Packs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve previously written about on this blog, we will be releasing Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 in CY2008 following the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2008. We&#8217;ve gotten some questions about the differences between Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and Hotfixes. 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