>>Hi,
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>>Would it be correct to assume that when SQL Select from VFP against SQL Server fails and the error is
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>>Communication link failure
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>>that the problem was that the SQL Connection timed out by the time user executed the SQL Select? Or if not, what else would be causing this type of error?
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>>TIA
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>No, when the timeout is occurred then the error will be:
>"Timeout occurred", something like this.
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>Communication link failure usually means that you do not have connection with SQL Server anymore.
>Some LAN troubles or if the SQL Server is on WAN maybe Internet connection is lost?
Thank you for your reply. So I suppose I should bring it up with the customer DBA because I don't know what else I can do. It is just that today I have received 3 error emails with this error message.
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