"Carlos Mendonça" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I work at a Hosting Company in Brazil and we have been experiencing issues
> with managed applications using .NET Framework 2.0 that connect to SQL
> Server 2005 databases with a failover partner. These issues started
> happening after we have applied KB928365
> (http://support.microsoft.com/KB/928365).
>
> The issue is an System.InvalidOperationException that is thrown every once
> in a while when connecting to the databases. The message is 'Internal .Net
> Framework Data Provider error 6.'. Both Operating System (Windows 2003) and
> databases (SQL Server 2005) are up to date, including all Security Updates
> and Service Packs.
>
> Although not many use failover partners to be able to reproduce the issue,
> we have identified people with similar problems while searching for the
> exception message in the major search engines. Additionally, the same
> problem has been reported at 'microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet', but
> it has been suggested that KB928365 should be removed, which is not an
> option for us considering the security concerns involved.
>
> I am posting in the newsgroups in hope of reaching someone from the .NET
> team to report this issue. I think it may be a bug, but it could also be
> some configuration requirement that KB928365 introduced. In either case, it
> is an issue that affect big databases and I believe that we should pay
> special attention to the case.
>
> I am not familiar with the process of reporting an issue to the .NET and/or
> SQL Server teams and I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint.
>
> I thank you in advance.
>
> Carlos Mendonça
>
>
>

"Mark" <M***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93BE8F7C-A008-4096-A570-4264AAAF7B83@microsoft.com...
> Looks like MS issued a hot fix for this on the 9th.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944099
>
>
> "Carlos Mendonça" wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I work at a Hosting Company in Brazil and we have been experiencing
issues
> > with managed applications using .NET Framework 2.0 that connect to SQL
> > Server 2005 databases with a failover partner. These issues started
> > happening after we have applied KB928365
> > (http://support.microsoft.com/KB/928365).
> >
> > The issue is an System.InvalidOperationException that is thrown every
once
> > in a while when connecting to the databases. The message is 'Internal
..Net
> > Framework Data Provider error 6.'. Both Operating System (Windows 2003)
and
> > databases (SQL Server 2005) are up to date, including all Security
Updates
> > and Service Packs.
> >
> > Although not many use failover partners to be able to reproduce the
issue,
> > we have identified people with similar problems while searching for the
> > exception message in the major search engines. Additionally, the same
> > problem has been reported at 'microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet',
but
> > it has been suggested that KB928365 should be removed, which is not an
> > option for us considering the security concerns involved.
> >
> > I am posting in the newsgroups in hope of reaching someone from the .NET
> > team to report this issue. I think it may be a bug, but it could also be
> > some configuration requirement that KB928365 introduced. In either case,
it
> > is an issue that affect big databases and I believe that we should pay
> > special attention to the case.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the process of reporting an issue to the .NET
and/or
> > SQL Server teams and I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint.
> >
> > I thank you in advance.
> >
> > Carlos Mendonça
> >
> >
> >