So Long, SQL Server 2005 -- Visual Studio Magazine

Data Driverby David Ramel

So Long, SQL Server 2005

Microsoft this week released the last cumulative updates for SQL Server 2005 and will end mainstream support for the product in a few weeks.

The Cumulative Update #15 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 contains six fixes, while the Cumulative Update #3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 contains five fixes.

Although mainstream support ends April 12, technical support will continue for another five years for the latter service pack.

And plan ahead: technical support of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 ends Oct. 11.

What version do you run? Do you feel pressured to upgrade? Comment here or send me an e-mail.

Posted by David Ramel on 03/23/2011

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

Build Your First AI Applications with Local AI

"AI right now feels like a vast space which can be hard to jump into," says Craig Loewen, a senior product manager at Microsoft who is helping devs unsure about making that first daunting leap.
On Blazor Component Reusability - From Day 0

"We want to try to design from Day One, even Day Zero, with reusability in mind," says Blazor expert Allen Conway in imparting his expertise to an audience of hundreds in an online tech event on Tuesday.
Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression using the C# language. Unlike most implementations, this one does not use recursion or pointers, which makes the code easy to understand and modify.
Visual Studio's AI Future: Copilot .NET Upgrades and More

At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
PowerShell Gets AI-ified in 'AI Shell' Preview

Eschewing the term "Copilot," Microsoft introduced a new AI-powered tool for PowerShell called "AI Shell," available in preview.