{"id":624,"date":"2013-02-25T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=624"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:09","slug":"sql-server-2012-rtm-cumulative-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/sql-server-2012-rtm-cumulative-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, 2013 Microsoft released <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2728897\">SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 6<\/a>, which is Build 11.0.2401. This CU has 22 fixes listed in the public fix list, which is quite a bit fewer hotfixes than in the first five cumulative updates for the RTM branch of SQL Server 2012. I take this as a sign that the SQL Server 2012 code base is becoming more stable, which is always a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>This cumulative update <strong><em>is only for the RTM branch of SQL Server 2012<\/em><\/strong>. It will not install or work with SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (or any other version or service pack level). The fixes in this cumulative update are not yet available in a cumulative update for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1. You will have to wait about a month for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 CU3 to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has the RTM and Service Pack 1 branches of SQL Server 2012 out of synch as far as cumulative update releases are concerned, with the RTM branch being \u201cahead\u201d of the Service Pack 1 branch. That means that if you have \u201cdone the right thing\u201d by moving to SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, you have to wait about a month to reach parity with the RTM branch. Microsoft did not have this issue for SQL Server 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2 (except for a slight delay right after a new service pack was released), and they are not currently planning on fixing this issue (as far as I have been able to determine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, 2013 Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 6, which is Build 11.0.2401. This CU has 22 fixes listed in the public fix list, which is quite a bit fewer hotfixes than in the first five cumulative updates for the RTM branch of SQL Server 2012. I take this as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,31],"tags":[323,85,84],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-cumulative-updates","category-microsoft","category-sql-server-2012","tag-sql-server-2012","tag-sql-server-2012-rtm","tag-sql-server-2012-rtm-cu6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}