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 ...

We have a legacy setup that runs ASP and SQL2000, each on their own servers and each are on a fully patched SP'd Windows 2000 Server. This ASP web app is well known for hammering our SQL2000 server ...

ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain. How ...