Getting the connection is the most expensive part of the connecting to SQL Server. Unless you have a reason to keep connecting/disconnecting, store it as a property and use the same connection throughout your application.


>Hi all
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>Whenever I do a SQL Pass-Thru using SQLEXEC() I get the connection handle at the time just before the call to SQLEXEC() with a line as below:
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	lnConnHnd = CURSORGETPROP("ConnectHandle")

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>My question is this can I pre-store this handle in the application object goApp as a property? ie. are there any pitfalls if it is not GetProp()ed just before the SQLEXEC() call?
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>Please advise.