Victor Fehlberg’s Tech Postings

With the release of SQL Server 2005 SP3, many of us are wondering if BizTalk Server 2006 is supported with SP3.  I asked Microsoft this question and here was the reply:

“The BizTalk test team has planned complete testing of this. However, the Rangers team has tested this setup in a in-house test setup and didn’t encounter any issues. SQL SP3 is fully backwards compatible with SQL 2005 SP2 and hence BizTalk databases are covered (in an indirect way). We will have a fully supportability statement on this once the official tests are complete.

“We are recommending that our customers upgrade to SQL 2005 SP3 since it resolves many of the bugs with SP2 and many have upgraded their environments to SP3 successfully. We are fully committed to encourage our customers to be using the latest service pack/security patches.”

We proceeded to use SP3 for a new environment we are setting up; we haven’t encountered any issues yet but we aren’t using it in production yet (we will be in another couple of weeks).

I figured I’d share this since I’m sure it will help someone else out there.  Good luck!