SQL 2005 Service Pack 1 is launched!

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Yesterday, Microsoft officially launched Service Pack 1 for SQL 2005.

- Learn about the new features and improvements included in SP1

A ton of new features have been added and a lot of improvements have been made in SP1 for SQL Server 2005.

You can learn more about it at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/916940/

- Bugs fixed in SP1

Refer to KB 913090 (https://support.microsoft.com/?id=913090) for the list of bugs that were fixed in SP1.

Note that not ALL bugs that were fixed in SP1 have an associated KB article yet. As pointed out in this KB, you can expect to see more KBs on bugs that were fixed in SP1 in the future.

 

- Download SP1

You can download SP1 for SQL Server 2005 from https://support.microsoft.com/kb/913089/

          Note that there is a separate version for SQL Server Express.