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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:27:53+00:00

I understand that a connection pool can have 100 physical connections by default. How

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I understand that a connection pool can have 100 physical connections by default. How many pools can be created in ADO.NET? Does it related to the available memory of the machine.

I’ve learnt that the implementation for connection pooling is based on the provider so how SQL data provider’s connection pooling work will be different from how Oledb’s connection pooling. (Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xx3tyca.aspx) The default max physical connections for a pool is 100. If we have different connection strings (or different string order but same database) or different windows identity (if we are using windows authentication), new connection pool will be created. but I am looking for the information about how many connection pool can be created…

Please let me know if you are not clear what I’m asking or need more information.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As Tim Schmelter stated, there is no maximum value for the MaxPoolSize.

    It all depends on the maximum number of concurrent connections to a single SQL Server. So 32767 would be the maximum value to assign to the MaxPoolSize.

    See User connections in the Maximum Capacity Specifications for SQL Server documentation.

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