Guy Smith-Ferrier

Guy Smith-Ferrier's article, "SqlClient Connection Pooling Exposed" (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 12, www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?ID=483), generated a question from reader Angel Saenz-Badillos. Most Interesting Pooling Article I Have Seen This has to be the most interesting articl... (more)

ADO.NET's SqlClient data provider for SQL Server supports connection pooling, which is enabled by default. It works well: when a connection is closed it is returned to the pool and reused later when another connection using the same connection string and context is created. The r... (more)