Implementing SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SharePoint Server 2010

re: Implementing SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SharePoint Server 2010

Bill Baer (Microsoft) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:33:08 GMT

In Service Pack 1 we added support for SQL Server Code Name "Denali" which included support for installing on this database server. The changes in Service Pack 1 were designed to support some deprecated types in this version of SQL Server; however, we don't support deploying on SQL Server Code Name "Denali" in production environments at this time. In brief, SharePoint 2010 cannot be installed on SQL Server Code Name "Denali" without having Service Pack 1 installed. If Service Pack 1 is not installed, PSConfig will fail when attempting to create a new Configuration Database.

re: Implementing SQL Server Code Name “Denali” CTP3 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SharePoint Server 2010

DJ Grijalva — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:08:55 GMT

I am a bit confused, you state that SP 2010 is not supported on Denali although the 2010 SP1 whitepaper (go.microsoft.com/fwlink) states:

Installing on SQL Server Code Name “Denali”

SP1 provides support for running SharePoint 2010 with SQL Server Code Name “Denali” in addition to providing ongoing support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005.

Now it would be bad to use Denali for your farm as you cannot upgrade from CTP to

RTM but the 2 statements seem to contradict each other.