>Claudio
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>I guess I could have been clearer... I agree, the Help does not explicitly discuss connection sharing if you use connstring.
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>The reason I asked is because in practice, constring connections are SHARED when we use our standard DBCs.
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>We think the DBC View connection sharing setting is respected when you use connstring but are reluctant to assume that in case the behaviour changes...
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>Perhaps MS could answer this?
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>Regards
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>JR
If you send a partial connection string, and then re-query the string contents after a successful connect, the ODBC will return entire string to the variable that contained the original abreviated string.
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