Hi

I am just developing an application and on the one interface there is the potential for a user to connect to its SQL Server Db 6 times depending on the parts of the interface they use.

To give you an example.. when they first access the page they will have a dropdown menu which is populated with DB content within the Page.Load event which is databound to another dropdown which triggers another DB connection, and the same again. Then it would populate a Gridview.

Is this bad design and can it be avoided?

Many thanks

Rit

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I try to keep my roundtrips from my webserver ot my SQL server to a minimum but it all depends on the needs of the application. In your example of the dropdown list, it makes sense to make a second call to the database if the values of your second dropdownlist are dependant on what the value of the first dropdown is.



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Thanks dparsons. I have been sat here in isolation worrying whether it was connection overkill. But can't see any other way to trim it up.

Many thanks

Rit

Rit01: Would it not be appropriate to add or define all 6 connection strings to your web.config file? Then in your script use the "Select Case" to the different database connections. For a good example of using the web.config..SEE dparsons response to my topic Web.Config...Working or Not Working...

Just a thought....hope this helps.

What Rit is saying is that he makes 6 connections to his database, not 6 connections to 6 different database servers.

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Thats correct. Thanks for the input anyway.

Hmmmmmm.....it was the Topic Title that threw me, along with the narrative... Maybe if the Topic read: Multiple Connections to Single Database...

Like I said, it was just a thought.. I stand corrected.