{"id":807,"date":"2007-02-26T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/SP2-must-haves-and-SP2-compatibility.aspx"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:15:35","slug":"sp2-must-haves-and-sp2-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/sp2-must-haves-and-sp2-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"SP2 must haves and SP2 compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSQL Server SP2 was released last Monday. The links were posted on many blogs, so I won&#39;t repost any but the main one here. SP2 is a &quot;major&quot; service pack because there are a few &quot;must have&quot; features in addition to some rather useful improvements and quite a few bug fixes. The ones I&#39;d consider must haves are:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Support for running SQL Server 2005 on the Windows Vista operating system. Vista will inform you of the SP2 requirement when you install SQL Server 2005. You install the &quot;base&quot; SQL Server 2005 first and apply SP2 immediately afterward, except with SQL Server 2005 Express. Express ships an SP2-specific product.<br \/>\n2. Support for&nbsp;business intelligence&nbsp;features of&nbsp;Office 2007 in Analysis Services. Unless you have SP2 installed, these features will be greyed-out in Office 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are some brand new features too like Sharepoint Server 3.0\/SQL Server Reporting Services integration, the vardecimal storage format, and multi-schedule\/multi-server Database Maintanance Plans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut with that many changes, there are bound to be some incompatibilities. Be careful with these.<br \/>\n1. If you enable vardecimal storage on a database, you can&#39;t restore or attach&nbsp;an SP2-post vardecimal format database backup&nbsp;on an SP1 instance.<br \/>\n2. You can&#39;t use SP2 Analysis Services backups and data folders on pre-SP2 instances of Analysis Services<br \/>\n3. Analysis Services databases with linked measure groups can have problems on SP2. The most likely ones will be databases migrated from AS2000. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/2\/B\/5\/2B5E5D37-9B17-423D-BC8F-B11ECD4195B4\/ReadmeSQL2005SP2.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">SP2 Readme file<\/a> for specifics.<br \/>\n4. You can&#39;t use Database Maintanance Plans from an SP2 instance will an SP2 instance, because the SP2 maintanance plans can have multiple schedules.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo be sure and be aware of these to have a successful upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SQL Server SP2 was released last Monday. The links were posted on many blogs, so I won&#39;t repost any but the main one here. SP2 is a &quot;major&quot; service pack because there are a few &quot;must have&quot; features in addition to some rather useful improvements and quite a few bug fixes. 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