Flash back to July 11th, 2016. The world was pouring into theaters to see the remake of Ghostbusters:
But not you. You were hidden away in a data center, hard at work applying Service Pack 2 to your SQL Server 2014 instances.
Let’s be honest: you chose better than they did.
In the two years since, trusty ol’ Service Pack 2 has had 14 Cumulative Updates. Today, it’s time for him to retire and make way for Service Pack 3. Fixes include:
- Less TempDB contention
- Improved memory grant diagnostics using Extended Events
- Trace flags show up in query plans
- Wait stats, CPU time, elapsed time show up in query plans
- Query_hash and query_plan_hash data types now match between XE and DMVs
- Scalar UDF stats show up in query plans
- Row goals show up in…oh, you get the point
- Unified showplan schema for all supported versions
- MAXDOP hint for creating and updating statistics
- Faster restores on disks with 4K sectors
So get over here, and if you get a chance to re-watch the Ghostbusters remake, well…there is no remake. Only Zool.
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Pedro Lopez announced SP3 to be at the end SQL 2014 support date. That cuts the discussion.