A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

The latter uses two different connections and so isn't maxing your pool, but it's significantly slower (a lot of times the biggest overhead in a database call is the connection). <br><br>ADO.Net ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...