Download SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 and SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008 has been released for quite a while and there is only single Service Pack released for that version. Microsoft has announced couple of months back that the next Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2008 will be released in Q3 2010.

As of this day, the the latest Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2008 SP1 is CU # 7. Many organizations do not tend to install Cumulative Updates unless necessary and wait until the next Service Pack is released, which includes all of them. To download Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19&displaylang=en.

Mean while, Microsoft has recently launched its latest Version of SQL Server called SQL Server 2008 R2 at the PASS European Conference 2010. To start evaluating the newest features of this version download the SQL Server 2008 R2 trial at this link http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2Downloads.aspx.

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