>We are using an old MS SQL database (ver. 6.5) that is sensitive to resource taken up by "connections." Recently, I created a VFP9 application that contains two different DBC's. One DBC contains queries that are unique to the application and the other DBC contains queries that are general to many applications. Although I have each query set to "Share" in both DBC's, I just noticed that each DBC requires a connection to the SQL server. Is there anyway to get two DBC's to share the same connection? Also, I just noticed that the "name" of the connection in the two DBC's are slightly different. Would it make any difference if I renamed them the same name or is this an issue because each DBC establishes its own connection.
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>I realize I can copy the queries from one DBC into the other DBC and then I would have all queries in just one DBC and thus get down to just one "shared connection." But, that would defeat the reason they were separted into two DBC's in the first place which was to keep a master DBC of common queries for multiple applications.

At the lowest level, it may be worth checking that both SQL Server 6.5 and the database driver you're using support shared connections.

It sounds like you are storing connection information in DBCs. Instead, you could manage connections programmatically yourself which would give you full control over establishing, sharing and using connection handles.

Another possibility would be to create a third DBC on the fly, from the other two, that contains all of their information.

The GenDBC tool could be useful for either merging two DBCs or getting code that you can tweak programmatically.