General question:<BR>We recently switched one of our applications to Application Role security, which mandates (because the backend is SQL2000) that we turn off .NET Connection pooling for the sql ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

I've got a fairly large legacy fat-client app that needs some performance improvements in its DB access since the powers that be have decided to relocate the SQL servers that the client talks to about ...