On 22 Jul 2005 at 7:27, Jim Starkey wrote:

>You obviously have to connect to the database with a connection string
>before anything could happen.

Now I have to, of course. But only because you married server and
database connections into one connection string.

>The cost of capabilities + attach is much greater than attach +
>capabilities, which is the standard case.

As far as I can read sources, standard database attach procedure is
two-phased. First, client connects to server (op_connect) and then
attach to database (op_attach).
Everything we need to implement 'capabilities+attach' is fish out
server attachment from the dark pool. If we do so,
'capabilities+attach' will be much cheaper than
'attach+capabilities+re-attach'.

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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.