"Kevin Yu [MSFT]" <v-k***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Steve,
>
> This might be caused by connection pooling. If pooling is enabled, when
> you
> call close() on a connection, the connection to the database is actually
> not closed. It was just returned to the pool. This is used to improve
> performance if your app is frequently opening and closing connections.
>
> The connections will be closed completely if you close your app. You can
> also disable pooling by adding "pooling=false" in your connection string.
>
> If anything is unclear, please feel free to let me know.
>
> Kevin Yu
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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