{"id":981,"date":"2015-09-22T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=981"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:18","slug":"sql-server-2012-sp2-cumulative-update-8-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/sql-server-2012-sp2-cumulative-update-8-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2012 SP2 Cumulative Update 8 Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/3082561\/cumulative-update-8-for-sql-server-2012-sp2\">SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 8<\/a>, which is Build 11.0.5634.1. This CU has 23 fixes in the public fix list, and a number of them look pretty significant. If you are on SQL Server 2012, you need to be on the Service Pack 2 branch by now (especially since the RTM and SP1 branches are no longer \u201csupported service packs\u201d). If you are on SP2, I think you are much better off on the latest cumulative update than on the original SP2 RTM build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 8, which is Build 11.0.5634.1. This CU has 23 fixes in the public fix list, and a number of them look pretty significant. If you are on SQL Server 2012, you need to be on the Service Pack 2 branch by now (especially since [&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":[259],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-cumulative-updates","category-microsoft","category-sql-server-2012","tag-sql-server-2012-sp2-cu8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}