Question

Background: I am using Nhibernate in an ASP.NET MVC application with an open-session-in-view pattern and I need to use raw ADO.NET to execute some performance-critical database operations.

I’m somewhat confused about how I should be getting my connection instance as I’ve seen two different methods in numerous blog posts.

Do I want to use:

var connection = Session.Connection;

Or:

var connection = ((ISessionFactoryImplementor)sessionFactory).ConnectionProvider.GetConnection();

I can’t seem to find a conclusive answer anywhere and I’m hoping that someone with some extensive NHibernate experience can chime in here.

Answer 1

If you already have a session, use the connection from it.

That will also allow you to share the transaction (if one is open) by enlisting your commands on it.