0, which includes serious performance and reliability fixes. Note 2: columnstore index users should consider the on-demand hotfix update. Note 1: CU2 has a known issue with Filestream not working when SecureBoot is enabled. If you’re on Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10, and you’re using SecureBoot (which is enabled by default with Hyper-V Gen2 VMs), and your database has Filestream, you either need to disable SecureBoot, or skip CU2 for now. GDR (security patch to SP2 CU2) (update: un-released due to bug)ĭepending on your agreements with Microsoft and where you’re hosting your SQL Server, you may be able to get even longer support than what we show here. And yes, Red Hat and Novell both use service packs, other wise just known as updates. If you dont see an update version, you might still be the stock version you installed with. Service PackĬU3 (bug: do not apply if you use Auditing) Rep: /etc/redhat-release will usually give this information.

Each update is linked to its Microsoft knowledge base article with the download and the list of hotfixes included. Here’s the release history for Microsoft SQL Server 2016.

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