Re: an efficient way of checking if the connection to a db is actually open

On 15/12/2005 20:47 Assad Jarrahian wrote:
> The documentation says, the only real way is to actually call an sql
> statement on it. That seems inefficient. Is there any other way that is
> recommended?

Something like SELECT now() would be quick as doesn't involve any database
access.

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