Once I have issued a SQLStringConnect() to connect to a specific SQL Server database, does this connection will remain effective, as long as the program runs and as long as I don't close or that is bound to a specific timeout, and without inactivity, when the timeout occurs, the connection will be lost?

I'm looking for get as close as having a table to be permanently opened at the startup of an application in VFP, with VFP native table, and I was wondering how close I could get to that with SQL Server.