Question

I have a loop on page to update an access database that takes 15-20 seconds to complete. I only run it once a month at most but I noticed that every time I run it the web site (IIS 6) simply stops serving pages.

After the loop ends, pages begin opening again.

Here’s my code:

For each Email in Emails     if Trim(Email) <> '' then         ' execute the update         Set MM_editCmd = Server.CreateObject('ADODB.Command')         MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection = MM_Customers_STRING         MM_editCmd.CommandText = 'UPDATE Customers SET MailingListUpdates=False WHERE Email='' & Trim(Email) & '''         MM_editCmd.Execute         MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection.Close         Response.Write 'Email address ' & Email & ' successfully removed from the mailing list.<br>'     end if Next 

Is there anything I can do to avoid this?

Emails on the last update was around 700 records.

Answer 1

You are probably using up all the available connections in the connection pool. Try this instead:

Set MM_editCmd = Server.CreateObject('ADODB.Command') MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection = MM_Customers_STRING For each Email in Emails     if Trim(Email) <> '' then         ' execute the update         MM_editCmd.CommandText = 'UPDATE Customers SET MailingListUpdates=False WHERE Email='' & Trim(Email) & '''         MM_editCmd.Execute         Response.Write 'Email address ' & Email & ' successfully removed from the mailing list.<br>'     end if Next MM_editCmd.ActiveConnection.Close 

Also as a more long term thing try upgrading to SQL Server Express