No, you can't skip the SP3 installation. It's a cumulative update upon the SP install.

As written on the Microsoft page:

Prerequisites

To apply this cumulative update package, you must be running SQL...

Sorry - previous post was duplicated

jay-h (12/2/2016)

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Or we could go completely the other way.

As it is, the job system is an awkward fit into the SQL management world. You can do a lot with it,...

Because you already use MS Access as a sort of front-end, I wouldn't change it. Just upgrade to the latest version and fix some compatibiliy issues (if any). The number...

Below query will give you the desired results:

declare @table table (ID bigint,

Name varchar(50),

Address varchar(250),

RecDate smalldatetime,

PurPrice decimal(7,2),

PaidBy varchar(50)

)

insert into @table

values (1, 'Peter', 'Street 1', '2016-11-22', 100, 'PayPal')

, (2, 'John', 'Lane 1',...

You can start by running the Upgrade Advisor from Microsoft. Besides you can also run the profiler for a period of time that logs the "Deprecation Announcement" and the "Deprecation...

Use the queries below to get the desired information.

Execute it at regular intervals (daily?) and store the results. Build a reporting query on these stored results to get the differences...

All settings remain the same. Stats were updated with the regular maintenance tasks.

Your question is similar to this thread.

Btw: you start with the values as a single string with comma seperated values ('a,b,c') and not with multiple strings seperated by a comma...

ram302 (11/17/2016)

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...Backstory: The query is part of a stored proc, and was running ok in SQL Server 2012. The system was recently upgraded to 2014, and the s.proc is taking...

You are mis-interpreting the relation between processor and hyperthreading. With hyperthreading the physical core acts as multiple cores. To the processes the physical core itself is *not* visible/available on its...

I was editing my first post with the answer to your question, but you were faster with your reply ;-).

Back to your question: Internally SQL will use the most efficient...

These articles are about determining the correct MAXDOP setting:

What value should be used for MAXDOP[/url]

MAXDOP of Confusion (Dear SQL DBA Episode 8)[/url]

Back to your question: Internally SQL will use the...

Queries with a CREATE statement can only be executed once. The second time you execute the same query you'll get the error message about the object already exists. If you...

I won't rant about the age of the SQL server and the end-of-support of it many-many years ago :w00t:. I expect you are aware of it and are just forced...