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Video: Service Packs, Hotfixes, and More: Keeping Your SQL Server 2008 Up to Date

  • ·Skill level: 100 (Beginner)
  • ·Run Time: 16:45
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

Description:

Like all software, your SQL Server needs to be updated. In this video tutorial, your author will discuss service packs, hotfixes and more methods to keep SQL Server 2008 up-to-date.

Highlights from this video:
  • What features will need updating?
  • SQL Incremental Service Model (ISM)
    • Critical-on-Demand hotfixes (COD), On-Demand hotfixes (OD), Cumulative Update (CU), General Distribution Release (GDR)
  • Identifying what service pack or hotfix you have installed
    • Product level
    • Build number
      • Determining your build number
    • File version
  • How do I get the service pack/hotfix?
and much more

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our SQL Server 2008/R2 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter 2: Installing and Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

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