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Lesson Learned #368: Connection Retry-Logic using ODBC API code

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Jose_Manuel_Jurado
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Jun 11, 2023
This week I had a service request where our customer didn't have a connection retry logic implemented in their application code in the event of a connection failure to Azure SQL. I would like to shar...
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DoDjango
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Jun 30, 2023

Thanks, nice sample. Unfortunately it does not cover a connection failure during the query command. If your statement were an UPDATE, how would you handle connection failures while the program waits for the command to finish?