Announcing SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update 1
By Brent Ozar on Jan 07, 2020 01:37 pm
The first cumulative update for a brand new version of SQL Server is always chock full of interesting bug fixes. Sure, Microsoft tells you to test the new version during the community previews before it goes live publicly, but it’s not enough – the real tire kickers hit after RTM. So it’s nothing new to see really fun bug fixes in a CU1 – buckle up.
CU1 includes fixes for a lot of issues that also affected 2016 & 2017, and we’ve seen those before in other CUs, so I’m only going to focus on the 2019-only bugs here:
- Corruption occurs when Accelerated Database Recovery is disabled
- Error when you try to install 2019 on a low power CPU
- Detect corrupt statistics with CHECKDB’s extended_logical_checks
- SSIS package execution becomes slower (you may need to read this KB article a few times – I’m not saying that because it’s in-depth and detailed, but because it’s so damn short you’re going to think you’re missing something)
- Access violation if you access a temp table across sessions (I’m assuming this means global temp tables)
- Access violation for Memory-Optimized TempDB – also this one and this one and this one and this one and hey maybe you don’t wanna turn this feature on just quite yet
- Access violation when you query sys.dm_db_persisted_sku_
features - Assertion failure for full text indexes on computed LOB columns (wow, who does that? That’s kinda nifty)
- Worker stealing (which is a new good thing) stops working (that’s a bad thing) for encrypted databases
- Worker stealing (good thing) causes an access violation (bad thing) when it hits Resource Governor limits (wow, again, feature interoperability testing is really hard, and my hat is off to Microsoft)
- Data masking of user-defined functions may result in crashes
- New DMV for external authentication – and I bet you want to know what it is, but you know what, you’re not going to get it from this KB article, buddy. (Update after installing CU1: it’s sys.dm_external_
authentication, and it has columns for use_identity, credential_id, and certificate_id.)
And lots more. Now, does this mean SQL Server 2019 is ready for its moment in the sun? In the past, you might have been one of those “don’t deploy until Service Pack 1 hits” people, but remember, there are no service packs anymore for SQL Server, so, uh, yeah. Got get ’em, tiger.
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