SQL Server 2005 articles, fixes and updates - August 2008

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that have been released in August 2008. The list is daily updated.

• 956274 FIX: Distribution Agent does not retry a command if an error occurs while Distribution Agent is running the command in a transactional replication of SQL Server 2005 Q956274 KB956274 August 26, 2008
• 955754 FIX: A deadlock occurs when you implement DDL statements against the partitions that are defined in a partitioned table in SQL Server 2005 Q955754 KB955754 August 26, 2008
• 946608 Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Q946608 KB946608 August 26, 2008
• 936305 Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is available Q936305 KB936305 August 26, 2008
• 956375 FIX: CPU utilization increases and throughput decreases when you run a heavy OLTP workload on an instance of SQL Server 2005 on a computer that has more than 32 processors Q956375 KB956375 August 25, 2008
• 940942 FIX: Error message when you run a stored procedure that references tables after you upgrade a database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005: "A time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch" Q940942 KB940942 August 19, 2008
• 956380 FIX: Error message when you process or deploy a cube that contains a calculation that references calculated members from a named set in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "A set has been encountered that cannot contain calculated members" Q956380 KB956380 August 18, 2008
• 956273 FIX: Error message when you synchronize data for a transactional replication in SQL Server 2005: "Replication-Replication Transaction-Log Reader Subsystem: agent <AgentName> failed" Q956273 KB956273 August 18, 2008
• 956601 Description of the blocking monitor thread in SQL Server 2005 Q956601 KB956601 August 14, 2008
• 956006 FIX: An access violation occurs when you run a query that uses the UNION operator to combine the results of three or more tables in SQL Server 2005 Q956006 KB956006 August 14, 2008
• 956208 Description of cross-version compatibility scenarios for merge replication in SQL Server Compact 3.5 Q956208 KB956208 August 12, 2008
• 942906 FIX: When you run a stored procedure that uses some views in SQL Server 2005, the performance is slow compared to SQL Server 2000 if the views use the JOIN operator and contain subqueries Q942906 KB942906 August 8, 2008
• 955506 Error message when you add a node to a SQL Server 2005 failover cluster on the Service Account page of the SQL Server 2005 Setup Wizard: "SQL Server Setup could not validate the service accounts" Q955506 KB955506 August 5, 2008
• 951935 Query performance is slow when you run a query that contains an ORDER BY clause on a table column of an SQL tertiary collation Q951935 KB951935 August 5, 2008
• 920995 Instructions for using SQL Server 2005 SP1 or a later version of SQL Server in the FIPS 140-2 compliant mode Q920995 KB920995 August 5, 2008