SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced on Wednesday, about two years after the release of SP2.

The last service pack that Microsoft released for its SQL Server 2008 relational database management products was Service Pack 2, back in September 2010. On Monday, CTP test versions of SP3 were made ...

On Monday, CTP test versions of SP3 were made available at the Microsoft Download Center for the first time. The new SQL Server 2008 SP3 CTP can be downloaded here.

Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.

Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.

Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.

One interesting piece of SP3 is an updated version of Notification Services 2005 that will also run on SQL Server 2008. Let’s take a look….

Previously codenamed Katmai, the long-awaited Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (overview) is slated for the third quarter of 2008. Delays aside, we can therefore expect SQL Server 2005 SP3 to be released ...