{"id":1360,"date":"2018-03-21T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:20:32","slug":"recent-sql-server-software-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/recent-sql-server-software-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent SQL Server Software Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The third week of March 2018 has seen a plethora of SQL Server related software updates from Microsoft. These include:<font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4092643\/cumulative-update-5-for-sql-server-2017\"><font size=\"2\">SQL Server 2017 CU5<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4077064\/cumulative-update-8-for-sql-server-2016-sp1\">SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU8<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4077063\">SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU11<font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This list covers <strong><u>all<\/u><\/strong> of the currently supported branches of these major versions of SQL Server, meaning that if you are on a different branch of one of these versions (such as SQL Server 2014 SP1 for example), you are <strong><u>not<\/u><\/strong> on a supported branch and there won\u2019t be anymore Cumulative Updates for that branch<font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">We also saw a new minor release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). The main purpose of this release was to add support for <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/sql-database\/sql-database-managed-instance\">SQL Database Managed Instance<\/a>, along with some bug fixes in other areas.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/ssms\/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms\">SSMS 17.6<font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third week of March 2018 has seen a plethora of SQL Server related software updates from Microsoft. These include: SQL Server 2017 CU5 SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU8 SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU11 This list covers all of the currently supported branches of these major versions of SQL Server, meaning that if you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,156,246,342,295],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-database-managed-instance","category-sql-server-2014","category-sql-server-2016","category-sql-server-2017","category-ssms","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}