Implicit connection in OLEDB - oledb

Met some strange behavior.
For some databases when I use ICommand Execute in my application, OLEDB open new connection for ALTER DATABASE query.
More strange that for some databases it didn't so.
I check all parameters and permissions for logins and DB It all the same.
I am in stuck, may be somebody 've met such problem.

So, Yes it opened new connection because there was not closed cursor (you can check it in Profiler) , and moreover You should check for not closed Rowsets in your code (I use C++).

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SQL Server connection established during design, but not during runtime

I have created an Amazon RDS DB instance. I can connect to it and perform operations with SSMS. I can also bind to it using Entity Framework DB-first and generate my model. However, when I run my app, using the same connection string that was generated in the data access project, I get a "the network path was not found" error while trying to establish a connection to the DB.
Let me be clear: the db exists, the right ports are open, and the connection string is correct. I am the only one connecting to the database and the status is "available".
So what's going on? Has anyone experienced something like this?
Let me also further mention that I have already checked the usual things like internet connectivity, firewall rules, state of the database, etc.
well it started working all of a sudden. So I guess this problem will only pop up again in production or something.

Connection String Caching in Web.Config

I have a ASP.NET Web application. The application connects three different databases. So I have defined three connection string in web.config with different database name and credentials.From the application code I am pointing to the relevant connection string and firing stored procedures. Sometimes the procedures are hitting the wrong database. My guess is that as .NET cache the web.config, somehow the framework is returning the wrong connection string from cache and the application hitting the wrong database. I have checked the application code and found it is pointing to the correct connection database in all cases. Is this happening due to web.config chancing? I cannot identify the root cause of the problem. Please help.
If you are using EF to connect to the database, you have to close the scope of the context and then initialize a new context with the required connection string and then use that context to execute the SP.
I don't think this is an issue with the caching !
If there is only one DAL which connecting to different databases then it is a high chance of application mistake somewhere.
Possible solution, as we have no idea of how is you data access code looks like, is to create 3 different DAL and in each of them realize logic to work only with specified connection string.
For example create 3 different classes inherited from DbContext with different connection strings in constructors.

How to prevent ADODB.Connection pooling?

I'm using Powershell v2.0, question is in the title. I'm having to use the old school ADOB.Connection (not the OLEDB provider) to open a Jet DB file (.mdb). The reason is simple, the ADODB.Connection exposes properties I need access to that the OLEDB provider doesn't.
I'm opening the DB via ADOB.Connection to query for some information, and then I'm trying to compact the DB using JRO.JetEngine. The issue is that I keep getting an error about the Jet DB being locked.
I'm explicitly calling Close on it, and setting the variable to $null, and still experiencing that issue. My best guess is that ADODB.Connection is using connection pooling, and so is not releasing the resources the way it should be.
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191572, the call to close() should be enough, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Is there a way for me to explicitly specify no connection pooling when creating ADODB.Connection objects?
In the link you provided, it is said that calling to close returns the connection to the pool:
2.What statement returns the connection to the pool?
2.Conn.Close
You might need to destroy/dispose the ADODB.Connection object, so that it is removed from the pool, or, if you are using OLE DB as the provider, configure the OLEDB Services, as explained here:
Enabling OLE DB Resource.
Pooling Resource pooling can be enabled in
several ways:
For an ADO-based consumer, by keeping one open instance of a
Connection object for each unique user and using the OLEDB_SERVICES
connection string attribute to enable or disable pooling. By default,
ADO attempts to use pooling, but if you do not keep at least one
instance of a Connection object open for each user, there will not be
a persistent pool available to your application. (However, Microsoft
Transaction Server keeps pools persistent as long as the connections
in them have not been released and have not eventually timed out.)

Oracle ODP.Net and connection pooling

this is really two questions in one I guess.
We've developed a .Net app that accesses an Oracle database, and have noticed that after changing the user's Oracle password, the app continues to work for a short time with the old password in the connection string. Presumably this is something to do with the way existing connections are pooled?
When first investigating this we tried turning off pooling in the connection string, however the app wouldn't work, throwing the error "Unable to enlist in a distributed transaction" at the point it tries to open a connection. While we probably wouldn't want to turn off connection pooling in a production app, I'm curious as to why MSDTC seems to need it?
We are using Oracle 11g (11.1.2) and latest ODP.Net (11.2 I think).
Thanks in advance
Andy
Please see some of the finding below:
For Question One: (application still connected with old DB password)
If we connect the database with connection pooling option, connection pool manager would create and maintain the number of connection sessions when first calling the open or close of OracleConnection object. (number of this connection sessions depend on "min" & "max" pool size in connection string). In Oracle, I think you could check active session like:
SELECT s.inst_id,
s.sid,
s.serial#,
p.spid,
s.username,
s.program
FROM gv$session s
JOIN gv$process p ON p.addr = s.paddr AND p.inst_id = s.inst_id
WHERE s.type != 'BACKGROUND';
And according to Oracle doc, this connection pooling service will close the connection sessions after 3 minutes of in-active state. [ http://docs.oracle.com/html/E10927_01/featConnecting.htm ]
So the most possible reason could be, your application still
connected to the database by using this Pool and still connected for
a short time, even after you changed the database password.
There could be also one possibility of "Oracle Client Cache"
feature in ODP.net. But not quite sure, you can check at, [
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2008/08-jul/o48odpnet-098170.html ]
For Question Two: (why MSDTC needed)
If you are using nested Database connection in your code, it will be promoted to DTC. [ http://petermeinl.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/avoiding-unwanted-escalation-to-distributed-transactions/ ] Actually there was Oracle Service for Microsoft Transaction Server (OraMTS) act as among ODP.net, DTC, and Oracle Database.
But you didn't happend this problem (MSDTC) before disabled the connection pooling. It seems like your code is reusing the same connection out of undelining connection pool, and it might eliminate the need to promote DTC. There was similar question on StaffOverflow. [ Why isn't my transaction escalating to DTC? ]

Delphi Client-Server Application using Firebird 2.5 error [duplicate]

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Delphi Client-Server Application using Firebird 2.5 embedded connection error
I have got a lengthy question to ask. First of all Im still very new when it comes to Delphi programming and my experience has beem mostly developing small single user database applications using ADO and an Access database.
I need to take the transition now to a client server application and this is where the problem starts. I decided to use Firebird 2.5 embeded as my database, as it is open source, and it is can be used with the interbase components in Delphi and that multiple clients can access the database simultanously. So I followed the interbase tutorial in Delphi. I managed to connect the client to the server and see the data in the example (While both are running on my pc), but when i tried to move the client to another pc, keeping the server on mine and running it to see if I can connect to the server it gave me the following error.
Exception EIdSocketError in module clientDemo.exe at 0029DCAC. Socket Error # 10061 Connection refused.
I understand that this might be because the host is defined as localhost in the client. But here is my first question. In the TSQLConncetion you can set die hostname under Driver->Hostname. The thing I want to know is how do you do this at run time, as I cannot get the property when I try and make an edit box to allow the user to enter the value and then set it via code like for example:
SQLConncetion1.Driver.Hostname := edtHost.text;
The thing is there is not such property to set, so how do you set the hostname at run time?
Im using Delphi XE2
There is still a lot of questions to come especially when it comes to deployment, but I will take this piece by piece and I appreciate the advice.
That means that the server: port your program is trying to connect to
is refusing your connection. Could be a firewall related issue on
either your server or your own machine.
Try using telent to connect to the server. If that succeeds you know it a problem with your machine's configuration.
Check these links for more information :
How TO Fix Socket Error 10061 Connection Refused Easily
Problem Loading (python blocked by firewall)

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