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Service Pack 1 (SP1) focuses on essential updates only, primarily roll-ups of cumulative updates 1 to 3 and fixes to issues reported through the SQL Server community. SP1 eases deployment and management of Service Packs by introducing Slipstream, Service Pack Uninstall, and Report Builder 2.0 Click Once capability.

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Videos

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How Do I: Design High Performance Cubes in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services?

Blogs from the SQL Server team

Euan Garden

When is a bug a bug and when is it an incomplete feature
Tuesday, Apr 21

Buck Woody - DBA

Help for SQL Server
Tuesday, Feb 9

SQL Server Security

Quick security references (QSR) on Cross-Site scripting and SQL injection.
Tuesday, Feb 2

Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team

Full Text Indexing Terabytes of Files with SQL Server and Cloud Storage
Wednesday, Feb 3

Jamie MacLennan

Happy New Year with a big bang!
Friday, Jan 1

PSS SQL Server Engineers

How to have a Select All Multi-Value Cascading Parameter
Friday, Jan 29

SQL Server User Education

Announcing SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP
Thursday, Nov 12

SQL Server Manageability Team Blog

Where is SAC tool?
Saturday, Mar 1

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MVP Blogs About SQL Server

	Andrew Kelly What 3 events Brought Me Here Wednesday, Feb 3
	Adam Machanic T-SQL Tuesday #002: The Roundup Monday, Feb 8
	Linchi Shea Killing a SQL Server thread? Don’t! Thursday, Feb 4
	Kalen Delaney T-SQL Tuesday #3: SQL Server Relationships Tuesday, Feb 9
	Tibor Karaszi Adding a PK online? Wednesday, Jan 13
	Kevin Kline Free Training for You, Punishing Workload for Me. Thank You for Enjoying My Misery. Tuesday, Feb 9
	Hugo Kornelis Bin packing part 4: The set-based disaster Sunday, Oct 26