Hmm, I was never convinced about SP4 for SQL2005 seeing as SQL2005 SP3 is so stable (in my environment anyway). It will be interesting to see how microsoft word the readme file and their recommendation on applying it (will they word it like a CU or recommend applying it).

As a SP management will presume it should be applied but its an outage and I have no bugs need fixing. I'm being selfish here but the timing will be awful for me and I am all patched out!

SP2 for 2008 is definitely needed and I voted for it so its good to see, but again from a selfish viewpoint the timing could not be worse, Q3 is when our plans have us migrating 2000 systems to live, so having done all our testing against against 2008 SP1 we are going to have to go through another cycle of testing soon after we go live, and on consolidated servers with a number of apps thats no small undertaking.

any chance of getting it out in Q2?

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