Question

I have an application which is connected to a database through a spring.net AdoTemplate. I am charged with creating a restore database method which keeps the app running but drops the network connections so as to drop the old database and bring up the new one. My question is how do I drop all the current connections that this application has to this AdoTemplate? I do not see any public method in spring 1.1 to drop the network connections.

Answer 1

What ended up working great was:

   SqlConnection.ClearAllPools();    // if any connections were being used at the time of the clear, hopefully waiting    // 3 seconds will give them time to be released and we can now close them as well    Thread.Sleep(3000);    //clear again    SqlConnection.ClearAllPools();