Separating Database Servers from BizTalk Servers

One powerful option for increasing the performance of a BizTalk installation is to use dedicated SQL Server machines, separate from the BizTalk Server machines. To design a multiple-server configuration, you need to understand how BizTalk Server uses databases and how the document-processing workload is distributed among those databases.

Databases Used by BizTalk Server

Four types of databases are used by BizTalk Server, with differing degrees of 1-to-N or M-to-N relationship allowed between database instances and BizTalk Server instances:

  • Messaging Management database (default name InterchangeBTM)— Defines all BizTalk Messaging objects for a BizTalk server group. Must be shared by all BizTalk ...

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