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27 Oct: Using Access? Enable Connection Pooling.

Here's a quick tip for anyone running their site from an Access database like I do: Use connection pooling. This was one of the many excellent suggestions Steve Moore gave me when I was starting up this site.

A pool of connections to the database is shared across ASP sessions, like a cache. Calling DBReleaseConnection as soon as possible after using the recordset is crucial, since that is when the connection is given back to the pool.

Here's how to set it up:

- Open the registry editor by running the regedit tool (Run regedit.exe).
- Go to the \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) registry key.
- Check if CPTimeout string exists.
- If the CPTimeout string does not exist add the Key string via the Edit, New, String Value
- The CPTimeout Key string should be set to 60 (60 seconds)

As always, whenever the registry is mentioned, you see a warning - YOUR MACHINE MAY NEVER WORK AGAIN. Be careful!

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