detecting that a SQL db is running

[bill ramsay]

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:39:51 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:02:43 +1300, bill ramsay <blah at blahdeblah>
>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> Dennis
>> 
>> none of this matters,  all i am trying to find out is whether or not
>> the local MSDE is actually running.
>>
>	From my reading of your system, you have multiple "local MSDE"
>server processes distributed about, and something on those distributed
>systems that causes the initial problem... So I've never been clear of
>just where any given application/server process actual resides...
>
>	However, all the tests I've been able to perform on my desktop
>indicate that /I/ get time-outs or failure to connect messages within 15
>seconds of a connection request when the server process is running.
>
>	I don't get unending lock-ups...


dennis 

it doesn't matter what is causing the lockups,  it's a problem with a
supposedly professionally written application package that I have no
control over.  I am just at this moment trying to deal with the
consequences.

I think that I haave found a way to deal with the issue that I have.

Kind regards

Bill