Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

There was good news for administrators of Microsoft's SQL Server 2019 last night as Cumulative Update 8 emerged, fixing the borkage of its predecessor.


Things haven't been going well for the SQL Server 2019 servicing model: Cumulative Update 2 left the SQL Agent a bit unhappy (resulting in the company advising users to skip the patch if they were using the afflicted component). And most recently Cumulative Update 7 suffered from a "known issue" with database snapshots, which also affected that little-used command DBCC CHECKDB.


Cumulative Update 8 arrived with little fanfare and, like its predecessor, applies to both the Linux and Windows incarnations of Microsoft's database engine. Those ..

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