It's awesome.

billva 5/24/2007 2:25:27 PM

This means that when running an ASP.NET application, the pages sharing an application domain can share a connection pool—if and only if they have the same transaction context and same connection string. Otherwise, different ASP application domains don’t share pools.

In a Windows environment, each process gets its own set of pools. Two Windows applications with identical connections strings do NOT share a connection pool.

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SCone_SQLMag 10/15/2004 10:16:50 AM

When author says:
"Also remember that each .NET assembly gets a unique PID. This means that each new assembly you run gets its own pool-regardless of the similarity of function or the fact that their ConnectionString values are identical."
What does he exactly mean? For instance, if I have two assemblies A and B running in the same address space (ASP.NET) and both of them open a DB connection using the same Connection string, does it mean there will be two connection pools created?
Thanks

dmitrym 10/6/2004 8:12:09 AM

very informative. my pools are over flowing in an asp.net app; while this doesn't tell me really how to fix it, i learned a lot. and will probably be able to figure it out. thanks a lot!

benjamin j, van der veen 7/2/2004 5:00:38 PM

The author didn't go into enough depth(I suspect he didn't do enough research either), and most of the text are just lame assertions. There isn't even a decent sample connection string. Also InvalidOperationException is not thrown when there is connection timeout, it should be SqlException.

csone 6/3/2004 5:46:25 PM

This article is an extremely high quality description, how connection pooling works and what do to avoid pitfalls. Every developer should read it, before using dotnet database providers.

Oliver Hausler 3/27/2004 10:16:46 AM

I presume when Bill says 'If you use a specific UID for each connection, each UID gets its own pool.' he means 'if you use a different UID ...'. Two identical cxn strings used by the same process would get pooled even if they use the same specific UID I thought.

Jim Weiler 5/14/2003 5:37:40 PM