In the light of Closing connections explicitly in Entity Framework and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738582%28v=vs.90%29.aspx it seems that I should be using the con
In EF5 (changed for EF6) the following would return the connection:
var connection = ((EntityConnection)context.Connection).StoreConnection;
If you are using EF in a right way you will probably never need to get inner db connection.