ASA9, .NET provider close connection problem

[Former Member]

Good day for all! After closing connection to ASA9 server from my program with this code:

_cn = new AsaConnection();
_cn.Open();

...

_cn.Close();
_cn.Dispose();
_cn = null;

In sybase central connection showed in Connected users tab with last requst COMMIT, and disappears only after closing the program. It normally? How can I really close connection without closing program? Garbage collection not helps...

[jeff_albion · Accepted solution]

This is the expected behaviour - connection pooling is enabled on ADO.NET connections by default. If you wish to disable this behaviour (although it's enabled for performance reasons), you can add POOLING=FALSE to your connection string.

[chris_keating]

Connection pooling is enabled by default IIRC. If you disable pooling, this behavior should clear. To do so, change you connection string to disable pooling by adding POOLING=FALSE as in:

 ENG=DEMO12;DBN=DEMO;POOLING=FALSE;UID=UserId;PWD=Pa55W0rd

[MCMartin]

Might be connection pooling (the connection is waiting to be reused) To double check, try a loop to do your stuff >32767 times, if you run out of connections I would say it is a bug.