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 Mendona