RE: .Net provider question

2009-07-09 Thread Gary Smith
> Is there a way to test a connection prior to using it to find out if > it's actually open? Like pinging the active connection. > > If I could do something like that prior to returning the connection, I > could then loop through the connections to check until I get a good > one. We have all of

.Net provider question

2009-07-09 Thread Gary Smith
Hello, I've run into an odd problem. I have a connection data management library for a project that we have been working with for a while. The purpose of this library was to work around some oddities in the ODBC environment where lots of connections were being held open for a long period of t