Re: No Earthly reason for MARS

James,

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I HIGHLY agree with it too. This particular sentence struck a cord with me too.

> There is no benefit to multiplexing a connection, nothing two statements on one connection can do that two connections can't. It's that simple.

As an web application developer that utilizes connection pools in the client application, I find this very natural. It is much easier to abstract another connection based on the same parameters that gave me a single connection within the language of my choosing vs binding for such features at a lower level. Abstraction is the key to interoperability and not leaning on FreeTDS/DB-Library to do this empowers us all. Just my thoughts.

 - Ken