General question:<BR>We recently switched one of our applications to Application Role security, which mandates (because the backend is SQL2000) that we turn off .NET Connection pooling for the sql ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain. How ...