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Announcing SQL Server 2017 Cumulative Update 25: The Silver Anniversary

2 years ago
Brent Ozar
SQL Server 2017, Updates
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SQL Server 2017 doesn’t have service packs, only cumulative updates, so this release marks something a little special: the Silver Anniversary. For the first time, a single version of SQL Server has had twenty-five consecutive cumulative updates.

As we all know, silver is the appropriate gift for a 25th anniversary, and there’s only one silver gift that can possibly suffice. We hereby present Microsoft with a sculpture made from the finest bent silver:

Now that we’ve got the ceremonies out of the way, let’s talk about CU25 for SQL Server 2017. Among other treasures, it includes:

  • The phone-home telemetry sends data to a new place – you know that CEIP Service that sends your database names and encryption levels to Microsoft? They’re finally letting you turn it off! Just kidding.
  • Wrong query results from columnstore indexes – at first this sounds like only index rebuilds affect it, but note that tuple mover activity also affects it, and that can happen at any time in the background.
  • Added new distributed name listener for AGs
  • Fixes issue where database freezes its IO during a VSS backup, but never thaws it
  • And a bunch more

Go get ’em!

Brent Ozarhttp://sqlserverupdates.com
I make Microsoft SQL Server faster and more reliable. I love teaching, travel, and laughing.
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2 Comments. Leave new

  • Wojciech Sawicki
    July 14, 2021 2:52 am

    13975159
    sp_pkeys !@#$%

    Reply
    • Josef Haslinger
      September 8, 2021 11:37 pm

      do you know a workaround for the buggy sp_pkeys?

      Reply

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