Microsoft has reiterated its intention to release a third service pack for SQL Server 2005 by the end of the year, after making a similar announcement in April.
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In a Monday blog post, Nosheen Syed, lead program manager in Microsoft's SQL Server Sustained Engineering group, said SQL Server 2005 SP3 will consist of all Cumulative Updates Microsoft has issued for the software, up to and including Cumulative Update 9 from SQL Server 2005 SP2.
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SQL Server 2005 caused headaches for early Vista users, because Vista required SQL Server 2005 SP2, but Microsoft didn't release SQL Server SP2 until February 2007, more than two months after it released Vista to business users.