{"id":1146,"date":"2017-01-18T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:21:52","slug":"sql-server-2012-cumulative-updates-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/sql-server-2012-cumulative-updates-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Updates Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft has released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=50733\">SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU7<\/a> (Build 11.0.6579.0). According to the associated cumulative KB article, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3205051\/cumulative-update-7-for-sql-server-2012-sp3\">KB3205051<\/a>, 12 issues have been resolved with this update. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft has also released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=50731\">SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU16<\/a> (Build 11.0.5678.0). According to the associated cumulative KB article, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3205054\/cumulative-update-16-for-sql-server-2012-sp2\">KB3205054<\/a>, 5 issues have been resolved with this update.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">If you are running SQL Server 2012, you really should be planning on moving to the SP3 branch (if you haven\u2019t done it already). The SP3 branch will be supported for a longer period of time, and also includes the manageability enhancements that were added in SP3.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Just in case you haven\u2019t noticed, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/lifecycle\/search\/?c2=1044\">SQL Server 2012 is due to go out of mainstream support on July 11, 2017<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU7 (Build 11.0.6579.0). According to the associated cumulative KB article, KB3205051, 12 issues have been resolved with this update. Microsoft has also released SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU16 (Build 11.0.5678.0). According to the associated cumulative KB article, KB3205054, 5 issues have been resolved with this update. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-cumulative-updates","category-sql-server-2012","tag-sql-server-2012-sp3-cu7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}