>Hi Naomi:
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>Thanks for your answer . The thread deals with network connections only. However, there are neither open sessions nor any opened files from any remote machines
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>I assume that ODBC is an internal process opening files locally that are not being closed after being queried.
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>I wonder if there is a tool to view such internal connections
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In SQL Server you can view open connections using sp_who or sp_who2 stored procedures. I'm not sure about ODBC tool - I'll ask around quickly.