Symptoms
Assume that you use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 non-English version. When you install SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2) Cumulative Update 2 (CU2), the SQL Writer component is patched incorrectly. The setup procedure does not detect the SQL Writer installation, and you receive the following messages in Details.txt:
(01) <Date><Time> Slp: Package ID SqlWriter_Cpu64: NotInstalled
(01) <Date><Time> Slp: Patch Id: KB2983175_SqlWriter_Cpu64 - The baseline msi is not installed. The patch package is ignored.
(01) <Date><Time> Slp: Patch Id: KB2983175_SqlWriter_Cpu64 - Detail description of this patch package is: PatchId=KB2983175_SqlWriter_Cpu64 PatchVersion=11.2.5548.0 BaselinePackageId=SqlWriter_Cpu64 BaselineVersion=11.2.5058.0; PatchFileName=SqlWriter.msp PatchCode={33295EAB-AEEA-4012-AF9B-0D3A092F5FEB}
Note
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After the installation, the version of the sqlwriter.exe file is 11.0.5058.0 that is SP2 version. However, it should be 11.0.5548.0 that is SP2 CU2 version.
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The issue also occur in SQL Server 2014.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2014 SP1 /en-us/help/3067839
Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/3031047
Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2012 SP2 /en-us/help/3007556
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
