{"id":1000,"date":"2008-09-30T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/SQL-Server-2008-patching-has-begun-and-the-PSS-blog.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:56:19","slug":"sql-server-2008-patching-has-begun-and-the-pss-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sql-server-2008-patching-has-begun-and-the-pss-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 patching has begun &#8211; and the PSS blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana size=2><br \/>\n<P>Just over a month since SQL Server 2008 went to RTM and the first Cumulative Update (CU1) has been released. Bob Ward, a very good friend of mine, and a Principal Escalation Engineer in the SQL Server Product Support team published a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/psssql\/archive\/2008\/09\/26\/welcome-to-sql-server-2008-patching.aspx\">detailed blog post<\/a> on Friday explaining how to get it and install it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>If you&#8217;re not subscribed to the PSS blog, you should be. They post a ton of great info on how things work and how to work around bugs. Bob just <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/psssql\/archive\/2008\/09\/30\/how-to-fix-your-sql-server-2008-setup-before-you-run-setup.aspx\">blogged again today<\/a> about how&nbsp;SQL Server 2008 Setup itself can be patched &#8211; not a trivial problem&nbsp;to&nbsp;engineer around.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Checkout the PSS blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/psssql\/\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/psssql\/default.aspx<\/a>.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month since SQL Server 2008 went to RTM and the first Cumulative Update (CU1) has been released. Bob Ward, a very good friend of mine, and a Principal Escalation Engineer in the SQL Server Product Support team published a detailed blog post on Friday explaining how to get it and install it. 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