Connection Pooling

Guest · Apr 30, 2004

Hi All

I have a single-threaded WinForms app which uses SQL Server 2000 as its database
Part of the app is a 'Restore from Backup' form which uses SQLDMO code. I keep gettin
errors telling me that there are other connections open - therefore the restore can't go ahead
I used sp_who to check connections during code step-through and it's true. However, an
connections made in the app have been closed at that stage.

I'm starting to think it's to do with connection pooling because the open connection(s) disappea
when the app closes. I've looked around for code examples to implement some of th
key/value properties for ConnectionStrings, but this has been fruitless

Has anyone got any other ideas

Thanks

Joh

William Ryan eMVP · Apr 30, 2004

It might be. One option is to turn off connection pooling for this piece of
the app. Since all connections have to be killed anyway, you can do
something like this
http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/killallconnections.html to kill all the
active connections. then you'll know for sure if it's your app or not and
if it is, turn off pooling temporarily...

HTH,

Bill

Connection Pooling

Guest

William Ryan eMVP