Considering there are a number of pieces that are involved in the connection
being ready why not create a small program that tries to connect and checks the
return value. If it fails sleep for 500ms to 1 sec and try again for up to
X-times before aborting altogether?
Bob
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Hi Rob,
I have an application self-installer program which also installs
MySQL and sets it up. This is all on Windows.
I have a problem in that when the installer runs 'net start MySQL',
it returns immediately but the MySQL daemon is not ready for
connections immediately. As the next step in th
