Of course we'd want to try to reconnect, and you're right, the method you are suggesting will work. We just thought with the advances in SQL connectivity in the newer versions of Fox that there'd be something better than a fishing expedition to see if the application can get to the data.


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Even there would be the "simple" check, do you wish to reestablish connection manually? It looks simple enough: in the error routine you could try to reconnect and continue.