>>HI
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>>I'm using a mysql database to do some reporting.
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>>I seem to be having a problem with my data connection intermittently hanging up or freezing.
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>Are you opening and closing the connection between calls? Or are you trying to hold the same connection while the site is active? The normal way is to open/close them (which isn't as awful as it sounds - it just returns the connection to the pool). If you're attempting to hold the connection (in something like a static property) then it's possible the server is just disconnecting an inactive connection after a while.

Hi Paul

its not my data layer :-) .But it does seem to leave connections open.

However I don't think thats my problem as I did check on the Mysql management console for open threads. Then I restarted Mysql and fired off my stored procedure from the web site. It opened two thread for the stored procedure and promptly one thread was marked as sleep till it timed out. I'm not sure why the Stored procedure opens two threads. I'll have to dig into it more on Monday.

It does seem to be problem relating to my stored procedures and not SQL statements as a few are sent before the stored procedure call and they consistently work ok. But also I can run the stored procedures from the Mysql query browser and they work ok. (this is at the same time as the thread from the web site is frozen).

Also this is intermittent and I haven't been able to figure out what is causing that yet. If it consistently didn't work it would be a lot easier (how often have we heard that before)

Nick