"SQL Server Builds V3.xlsx" out of date - when will it be updated?

Question

"SQL Server Builds V3.xlsx" out of date - when will it be updated?

Fiore, Anthony 1

When I'm trying to plan my SQL Server patching I download "SQL Server Builds V3.xlsx" from https://aka.ms/SQLServerbuilds to see the currently available SQL builds.

I've noticed that this is nearly a month out of date as it's missing 15.0.4249.2 for SQL 19, released 2022-08-11.

Can someone please ensure this is up to date?

Is there a better source of information that can be programmatically downloaded and compared to a SQL Server estate?

Thanks,
Tony

Answer 1

Hi @Fiore, Anthony

This is a technology related forum, this kind of news about new products like this is beyond our capabilities.

How to patch SQL Server
Determine the version, edition, and update level of SQL Server and its components

-------------

If the answer is the right solution, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment".

Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Answer 2

Olaf Helper 27,211

Can someone please ensure this is up to date?

This is a community forum; no one of us can ensure that.

Answer 3

Tom Phillips 17,611

The filename changes every time it is updated. https://download.microsoft.com/download/d/6/5/d6583d78-9956-45c1-901d-eff8b5270896/SQL%20Server%20Builds%20V4.xlsx

I recommend you just use the webpage. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/sql/general/determine-version-edition-update-level

Fiore, Anthony 1 Reputation point

2022-09-06T12:55:58.113+00:00

Tom

Thanks for your answer but it doesn't really work for my case.

Firstly, SQL Server Builds V3.xlsx has been updated for over a year now with new builds, they haven't changed the version number. That actually wouldn't matter if they pointed the alias https://aka.ms/SQLServerbuilds to the new version but they haven't. How would one know what the new URL should be?

As for https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/sql/general/determine-version-edition-update-level, that is a useful page but not easy to download and programmatically compare to versions retrieve from SQL estate.
Tom Phillips 17,611 Reputation points

2022-09-06T12:58:58.22+00:00

As I said, the file name is changed every time MS uploads the file. So you cannot programmatically download the same file every time. The current filename is "SQL Server Builds V4.xlsx". V3 will never be updated.

The best thing is to monitor the page and just have a field in your database/query for "expected version" and just manually update it with the version you want. Then you can just report on every server not on that version.
Fiore, Anthony 1 Reputation point

2022-09-06T13:12:29.347+00:00

Tom - do you work for Microsoft?

I don't like to be rude but I don't think you really read and understood my post, basically Microsoft provided an alias, https://aka.ms/SQLServerbuilds, the point being that this can be repointed to the new file. Maybe whoever implemented this no longer wants to update it, who knows?

Don't bother replying unless you have a useful comment, I'll try to transform the data tables from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/sql/general/determine-version-edition-update-level using python. The old way was easier!

"SQL Server Builds V3.xlsx" out of date - when will it be updated?

3 answers

Activity