On Feb 4, 2008 9:31 AM, MB Software Solutions <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What's the best practice in this?  iirc, Paul McNett does a timer
> process in the background where he constantly keeps polling something
> like "show tables" in order to keep the connection alive.  I was doing
> this for getting my handle (and thus the goal was to re-establish
> connection if the simple command failed):
>

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Learn to live in the disconnected world?  All I see is a force to attempt to
ride a former connection.  Why not close them and
reopen?  KISS.  Reason is that when doing Web based stuff you won't try to
force the concept of an open pipe back to your data.
-- 
Stephen Russell
Sr. Production Systems Programmer
Mimeo.com
Memphis TN

901.246-0159


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