ADO.NET Connection Pooling & SQLServer

Question

• What is it?
• How do I implement connection pooling with MS SQL?
• What are the performance ramifications when
• Executing ma

Answer 1

Connection pooling is a mechanism to re-use connections, as establishing a new connection is slow.

If you use an MSSQL connection string and System.Data.SqlClient then you're already using it - in .Net this stuff is under the hood most of the time.

A loop of 30k iterations might be better as a server side cursor (look up T-SQL cursor statements), depending on what you're doing with each step outside of the sproc.

Long queries are fine - but be careful calling them from web pages as Asp.Net isn't really optimised for long waits and some connections will cut out.