What would be a very fast way to determine if your connectionstring lets you connect to a database?
Normally a connection attempt keeps the user waiting a long time before notifying the attempt was futile anyway.
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What would be a very fast way to determine if your connectionstring lets you connect to a database?
Normally a connection attempt keeps the user waiting a long time before notifying the attempt was futile anyway.
You haven’t mentioned what database you are connecting to, however. In SQL Server 2005, from .NET, you can specify a connection timeout in your connection string like so:
This will try to connect to the server and if it doesn’t do so in three seconds, it will throw a timeout error.