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• Microsoft fixes the bad cumulative update for SQL Server 2016 SP2

  Posted on August 21, 2018 at 11:36 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Overnight, Microsoft released KB 4458621, the patch that’s supposed to fix the errors in Patch Tuesday’s KB 4293807.

  Per the KB article:

  This update is a replacement for the update KB4293807 that was released on August 14, 2018.  If you have previously applied the original update KB4293807, we recommend that you install the update KB4458621 as soon as possible.

  That was fast – but if you were updating quickly (or automatically), you may have been unable to use SQL Server for a week.

  Thx @abbodi86

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4293807, KB 4458621

• Microsoft yanks buggy cumulative update for SQL Server 2016 SP2, KB 4293807

  Posted on August 20, 2018 at 14:22 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The SQL Server engineering team just posted this on the MSDN SQL Server blog:

  On Tuesday August 14, we published a Security Update for six different releases of SQL Server 2016 and 2017. For one of those releases, SQL Server 16 SP2 CU (KB4293807), we inadvertently published additional undocumented trace flags that are normally not on by default. We are working on replacing the update in the next few days. If you installed KB4293807 and are experiencing issues please uninstall the update until the replacement update (KB4458621) is available.

  Günter Born reports one of his correspondents couldn’t get the cumulative update to install, failing with an error 0x80070643. Trying again this morning, the patch wasn’t available.

  Windows Patches/Security KB 4293807