"Get thee to a connection pooler ASAP." We've got systems where we establish ~1K connections, but that's on UNIX, where the handling of large systems is *WAY* more mature than Windows.
Any time those kinds of quantities of connections appear necessary, it seems highly preferable to be using connection pooling so as to try to reduce the number of actual connections and to increase the per-connection usage. -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- assortedly attributed to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Rita Mae Brown, and Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match