Only the most recent CU that was released for SQL Server 2016 SP2 is available at the Download Center. Each new CU contains all the fixes that were included togetrher with the previous CU for the installed version or service pack of SQL Server. About cumulative updates for SQL ServerĬumulative updates (CU) are now available at the Microsoft Download Center. This update contains fixes that were released after the initial release of SQL Server 2016 SP2. 14) for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article describes Cumulative Update package 15 (CU15) (build number. This issue will be fixed in the next Cumulative Update release. If you are running SQL Server 2016 side-by-side with older versions of SQL Server, we recommend that you do not install this Cumulative Update. If you have installed this cumulative update on a server that also runs older versions of SQL Server, such as SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2012, VSS backups will fail against these older instances. The SQL Writer service is shared across all instances of SQL Server that run on the same server, regardless of version. There is a known issue with the SQL Writer component in SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU15.

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