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> Also by the time an application does execute some SQL, the the > connection/node/server/network could have dropped and so the application > 'will have to check & recover from write failures at that point anyway." This is a bit of a red herring. You could say that about any database action, anytime ever. I personally think a simple select is better than relying on a low-level library call, as it does a more complete end-to-end check that is almost certainly closer to what the caller is going to use the connection for. > Mysql has 'mysql_ping' the same sort of thing as OCIPing except it can > reconnect. Does it automatically reconnect? That certainly seems like the wrong thing to do, especially in light of the docs for connect_cached. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201211042146 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAlCXKI0ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsgMAACg4VdWNpWYgyrENkXKhO9G5Mez /fkAoM6hBowTxDCAvKOD6G7yQBgItiO1 =85sU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----