I agree @Aaron, SPs used to contain new features and require more testing. My point was about the effort to get people involved and documenting the whole process - this administrative overhead always happens, with small or big changes.

@gary, I understand your point. I just used your post as an example to show that more people can be affected by this than the number of us complaining.

Actually I even made a post about this article to help spread the word, as I follow quite a few DBAs (and hope they follow me too! lol): http://thelonelydba.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/what-is-the-latest-sql-server-service-pack/[/url]