Since a couple of days, the first Service Pack for SQL Server 2012 is available on the Microsoft website.
The SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 includes an SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) and an SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2). Therefore all corresponding hotfixes are included.
Which issues are fixed in SP1
There are 13 fixed issues:
- 2 for Availability Group
- 1 for SSIS
- 1 for Data Quality Client
- 4 for Data Quality Services
- 1 for Cluster
- 4 for Master Data Services
What’s new for SQL Server 2012 SP1
- Cross-Cluster Migration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups for OS Upgrade
- Selective XML Index
- DBCC SHOW_STATISTICS works with SELECT permission
- New DMV returns statistics properties(sys.dm_db_stats_properties)
- SSMS Complete in Express
- SlipStream Full Installation
- Business Intelligence highlights (with SQL Server 2012 SP1, Office and SharePoint Server 2013 )
- Management Object Support Added for Resource Governor DDL
Historic of SQL Server 2012
If you update your SQL Server 2012, you will have a new build version: 11.00.3000.
Here is a quick summary of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 builds since the beginning:
| Date | SQL Server 2012 version | Build |
|
November 2010 |
Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) |
11.00.1103 |
|
July 2011 |
Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) |
11.00.1440 |
|
November 2011 |
Release Candidate 0 (RC0) |
11.00.1750 |
|
December 2011 |
Release Candidate 1 (RC1) |
11.00.1913 |
|
March 2012 |
RTM |
11.00.2100 |
|
April 2012 |
Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) |
11.00.2316 |
|
June 2012 |
Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) |
11.00.2325 |
|
August 2012 |
Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) |
11.00.2332 |
|
October 2012 |
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-070 |
11.00.2376 |
|
October 2012 |
Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) |
11.00.2383 |
|
November 2012 |
Service Pack 1 (SP1) |
11.00.3000 |
If you need more informations and want to download this SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, click here.
Conclusion
After eight months Microsoft has released first Service Pack for SQL Server 2012. SQL Server Service Pack 1 includes fixes to issues and also a lot of good new features. Service Packs are very critical and important for bug fixing and product upgrades, so you should install it quickly. Microsoft has also released a Security Bulletin in October to resolve a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server on systems running SQL Server Reporting Service. So if you use SSRS, don't forget to also install this security patch.