How to clear the ODP.NET connection pool on connection errors?

Question

I\'m using NHibernate and ODP.NET to connect to a Oracle 11g database. Of course there can be connection errors (network failure, DB down, ...). I\'m handling all these exce

Answer 1

Generally speaking, you should avoid trying to manipulate the connection pool for any ADO.NET provider (and also WCF channels - an aside). If you application needs to be resilient in the face of underlying data errors (e.g. timeouts, broken connections in pool, etc.) then you should implement the appropriate level of transaction to ensure data integrity and retry logic to re-execute the failed operation.