In my last post, I discussed an issue where a connection to a database, via ODBC, is dropped when a network connection is intermittent.
This led me to search the Internet for similar situations and circumstances that other may have encountered. Nothing significant turned up, so I went to the source: Microsoft. Posting on […]

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Sounds like a commercial from a drug company “Network Problems Can Cause Adverse Side Effects…sleeplessness, chest pain…”, but, I digress.
Let me set the stage of my testbed configuration: On Windows XP SP2, my default connection to the Internet is via wireless express card modem using EV-DO via Verizon Wireless. Let’s call this connection A. […]

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Recently was working on a production instance of Windows Server 2003 that hosts one of our key installations of WebWatchBot to monitor our servers.  This instance is on a virtual machine, using Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 R2, that was initially created with 16GB of disk space.  For anyone not familiar with Virtual Server, once you allocate […]

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