We have a bunch of VB6 apps at our company. We are trying to debug a random SQL timeout error and did a trace with SQL Server Profiler on the Audit Login event. We noticed that the connections were coming in as nonpooled. We use the SQLOLEDB provider with SQL Server 2000 & 2005. I searched the internet and everything I come across says that connections are pooled by default in the SQLOLEDB provider, but we are not seeing this. Below is the code we use to connect to the database. We really need to have these connections pooled because we think this may be the problem with our random timeout error. Could any one shine some light on why connection pooling isn't working and any way to make it work? Thanks.
Dim cnn As New ADODB.Connection
cnn.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=xxx;Catalog=xxx;User ID=xxx Password=xxx;"
Call cnn.Open
Dim cmd As New ADODB.Command
Set cmd.ActiveConnection = cnn
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [Table]"
Dim rs As New ADODB.RecordSet
Call rs.Open(cmd, , adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic)
While Not rs.eof
'Do stuff
Call rs.MoveNext
Wend
'Close and Dispose connection here
Disposing the connection on every call could prevent pooling
...at least one instance of a Connection object instantiated for each unique user—at all times. Otherwise, the pool will be destroyed when the last Connection object for that string is closed.