(RADIATOR) How does SQL Fallover work?

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello William -

Database failure means no response to an SQL query (for whatever 
reason).

regards

Hugh


On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 01:52 Australia/Melbourne, William 
Hernandez wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The Radiator 3.3.1 manual states in Section 6.28 <AuthBy SQL>
>
> "AuthBy SQL is tolerant of database failures. If your database
> server goes down, Radiator will try to reconnect to a database as
> described above, starting again at the first database you
> specified."
>
> What does "server goes down" mean? Does it refer to a hardware
> failure? Does it mean the SQL Server application goes down? Does
> it mean that the particular database for some reason becomes
> unavailable and a connection is not possible although the SQL
> Server is still running? Does it mean that a connection was made,
> but there was an error/problem with the SQL query? All of the
> above?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> William Hernández
>
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NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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