How to Solve Max Connection Pool Error

Question

I have a application in asp.net 3.5 and Database is Sql server 2005.

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Answer 1

Before you begin to curse your application you need to check this:

1. Is your application the only one using that instance of SQL Server. a. If the answer to that is NO then you need to investigate how the other applications are consuming resources on your SQl Server.run b. If the answer is yes then you must investigate your application.

2. Run SQL Server Profiler and check what activity is happening in other applications (1a) using SQL Server and check your application as well (1b).

3. If indeed your application is starved off of resources then you need to make farther investigations. For more read on this http://sqlserverplanet.com/troubleshooting/sql-server-slowness