Guy Smith-Ferrier
Guy Smith-Ferrier is the Chief Courseware Architect for Courseware Online, specialists in developer training course materials for training companies and individuals alike. He is the author of C#/.NET courseware and much of the official Borland courseware including courses on COM and ADO. After years of trying he has still to master the piano better than a deaf one-armed monkey. He lives in hope. He can be contacted at gsmithferrier@coursewareonline.com.

By Guy Smith-Ferrier
Guy Smith-Ferrier's article, 'SqlClient Connection Pooling Exposed', Vol. 1, issue 12, generated a question from reader Angel Saenz-Badillos.
Feb. 13, 2004 12:00 AM  Reads: 11,217
By Guy Smith-Ferrier
ADO.NET's SqlClient data provider for SQL Server supports connection pooling, which is enabled by default. It works well: when a connection is closed it is returned to the pool and reused later when another connection using the same connection string and context is created. The result ...
Dec. 10, 2003 12:00 AM  Reads: 21,563  Replies: 2