{"id":1022,"date":"2015-12-29T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:18","slug":"sql-server-2014-service-pack-1-cumulative-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/sql-server-2014-service-pack-1-cumulative-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2015, Microsoft released <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3106660\/cumulative-update-4-for-sql-server-2014-sp1\">SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 4<\/a>, which is Build 12.0.4436.0. This CU has 34 hotfixes in the public fix list, which is still a fairly substantial number of fixes. This shows that Microsoft has been busy fixing quite a few issues to further improve SQL Server 2014.<\/p>\n<p>If you are still on the SQL Server RTM branch (which I think is a bad thing), Microsoft also released <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3106659\/cumulative-update-11-for-sql-server-2014\">SQL Server 2014 RTM Cumulative Update 11<\/a>, which is Build 12.0.2560, on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The official Microsoft build list is available from this KB article: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2936603\">SQL Server 2014 build versions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This KB article has a lot of very useful information on how to properly configure SQL Server 2012\/2014 for the best performance and scalability:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2964518\/EN-US\">Recommended updates and configuration options for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 used with high-performance workloads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#666666\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 21, 2015, Microsoft released SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 4, which is Build 12.0.4436.0. This CU has 34 hotfixes in the public fix list, which is still a fairly substantial number of fixes. This shows that Microsoft has been busy fixing quite a few issues to further improve SQL Server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,156],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-cumulative-updates","category-microsoft","category-sql-server-2014","tag-sql-server-2014-sp1-cu4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}