SCCM 2012 R2 Deployment assistance and guide lines required.

Hi All,
We have purchased the system center suit and planed to deploy the below products in our environment.
SCOM - Plan already made and architecture is ready with no issues
SCCM - In planning state.
We are planning to use the same SQL server for both SCOM and SCCM, Which is a SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6. So the database engine service is available to host our database.
But the Business has said we need to deploy reporting on another machine which may be a SQL 2012 SP1.
What i want to know is does SCCM 2012 R2 support using different versions of SQL server for its features? As i see there is no documentation for this.
How ever MS has given the document for SCOM that it is not supported and we need to use the same version of SQL for all the features.
Also is SQL Express edition supported for other Primary sites if i use a licensed SQL in my CAS ?
Does any one have an idea on SCCM 2012 R2 for the above ?
Gautam.75801

Thank you very Grath.
Also my last and the remaining question is about the SQL Server version inter operability.
Does using different versions of SQL work in SCCM ? i.E I use DB Engine SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 and if i use SQL 2012 R2 for reporting.
Will this work in SCCM ? As for SCOM MS has said this in there document that using different versions of SQL's for features is not supported.
So what is the case with SCCM is it the same or is it supported ?
As the Microsoft documents do not talk about this question.
The reason i asked is as the business does not have cost for Hardware for a SQL server and they are asking to use a SQL server in another domain for DB engine.
And another SQL server for reporting as the DB engine server does not have reporting.
Gautam.75801

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