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See how in-memory processing built into SQL Server 2014 SP2 delivers breakthrough performance to accelerate your business and enable new, transformational scenarios that make you more competitive. Microsoft offers comprehensive in-memory technologies for OLTP, data warehousing, and analytics built directly into SQL Server, so there is no need to buy specialized hardware, expensive add-ons or learn new skills to speed your transactions, your queries and your insights. SQL Server 2014 SP2 also continues to offer industry leading business intelligence capabilities and integration with familiar tools like Excel for faster insights on your data.

SQL Server 2014 SP2 contains fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms and Hotfix solutions provided in SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 1 through Cumulative Update 7. Service Pack 2 also includes supportability and scalability enhancements, and addresses issues that have been reported through the Windows Error Reporting system.

Need more information about SQL Server 2014 SP2? See the product details page.

Key features and updates:

• All enhancements introduced in SQL Server 2012 SP3
• New Extended Event for lightweight per-operator query execution profiling
• Extended diagnostics in showplan XML related to memory grant/usage and trace flags
• New DMF to expose per-partition information for incremental statistics
• Support for UTF-8 in Bulk Insert and BCP
• Also, all enhancements introduced in SQL 2012 SP3 are also included in SQL 2014 SP2

Feature Pack

The Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for Microsoft SQL Server. It includes the latest version of:

• Tool and components for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2
• Add-on providers for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2

Languages

Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish

Editions

SQL Server 2014 SP2 | 64-bit ISO
SQL Server 2014 SP2 | 64-bit CAB
SQL Server 2014 on Microsoft Azure