>Hi Nadya,
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>Only open the connection when you need to get/send data. ADO.NET is all about disconnected DataSets.
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>~~Bonnie
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Thanks a lot for the response. Funny, I remembered the opposite advice from you. My memory is starting to play tricks on me.

Thanks again and where a novice can read up on this particular topic?



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>>Hi everybody,
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>>I have a theoretical question. If we're working with SQL Server, what is the commonly-used practice: open connection at the beginning of the application and close it at the end or open and close only when sending requests to the server?
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>>I have this question for Visual FoxPro-SQL Server applications and for .NET applications.
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>>Thanks a lot in advance.