>>I think Neil may have posted this link before but read this through:
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xx3tyca.aspx
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>>The connection string values that affect pooling are:
>>Connection Lifetime
>>Enlist
>>Max Pool Size
>>Min Pool Size
>>Pooling
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>Thanks, this is good to know.
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>>The last one dictates whether ADO.NET uses pooling. If you are not explicitly setting it to 'false' in your connection string then pooling is enabled and used.
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>No, I do not have anything which would bypass the default.
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>>Can you monitor the open connection count on the server?
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>Is there specific tools we need to use for that or this can be verified as is from SSMS or something like that?

Maybe this:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175518.aspx (but SQL-Server is *not* my specialist subject :-} )