Microsoft quietly released CU #9 (build 9.00.3282) yesterday; it contains a few dozen fixes, including a nasty AV involving UNION queries, documented in KB #956006.  You can read about / obtain the cumulative update at the following KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953752 So, now you can start hitting F5 all day, every day on the article ...

Bob Ward posted a blog entry today where he explains the process of getting a cumulative update for SQL Server 2005 without having to call Microsoft's support team (they are called CSS now but you may remember them as PSS).  This is a great evolution in the process, which used to be very difficult (you had to open a support case and be deemed ...