WCF Service for many concurrent clients and database access

Question

I\'m new to WCF services and wondered what the best way to tackle the following would be.

I have many clients (~200 - ~500) that are all making requests of my service fa

Answer 1

We have a similar scenario and we solve it using only one conection from our WebService to the DB and using MARS from SqlServer that works perfectly and pretty fast. Sql Server really knows how to handle concurrent queries you don't must think in that.

You avoid with that the overhead of open and close the connections (obviosly that connection pooling helps in this case)

Remember also to add in your web service something like:

  [ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.Single,
        ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Multiple)]

And in the config:

This option is inside

Hope this helps :)