Sql-server – SQL Server 2014 Latest CU / Service Pack

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Where can you find the latest SQL Server 2014 Cumulative Update (CU) and/or Service Pack?

Note: I added this question and answered my own question to make this easier to find for others in the future.

At the time of this question, the first several pages of Google results (when searching for "SQL Server 2014 CU") only mention CU 1-4, with no mention of the latest CU 5. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sql+server+2014+cu

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For the latest CU and builds (this article will also include service packs when released): SQL Server 2014 build versions

As of 2015-01-13, SQL Server 2014 is currently on CU5, which was released Dec. 17, 2014.
Service pack 1 has not yet been released.

Another similar article, specific to Service Packs: How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2014

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SQL Server 2012 – Is Service Pack 2 Installed on Passive Node?

The logs led us to review our Cluster services:

There was an error to lookup cluster resources. Error: There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure . Status code: 4104. Description: .
HResult : 0x86d80014
FacilityCode : 1752 (6d8)
ErrorCode : 20 (0014)
Data:
    errorMessage = There was a failure to call cluster code from a provider. Exception message: Generic failure . Status code: 4104. Description: .

We determined that the replication agent service was the cause of the incomplete installation.

We removed the service from Cluster Resources and re-applied SP2 without success. We stopped the service on the node and re-applied SP2 without success.

Error: Failed to run patch request for instance: MSSQLSERVER (exit code: -2032664552)

We uninstalled the service from the server nodes, and then successfully "re-applied" SP2.

Follow-up actions:

We'll be contacting the replication agent vendor to discuss why this was required.
Review the Microsoft document "Patching SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances with Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU)", available here, which I discovered today.

SQL Server – Service Pack Update Notifications

No, there is not an automated way to have SQL Server notify you, but there are several good resources for checking in this question, such as sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com.

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