long time to establish a connection

[john.livermore]

When I login using QA to my SQL Server database, it takes 15-20 seconds
to establish a connection and open a query window. Drilling into a
database via Enterprise Manager is similar. Once the connection is
established, the server runs plenty fast however.

Can someone tell me why it could take a long time for a connection to
be established?

This behavior occurs when I am local on the box.

Thanks,
John

[Erland Sommarskog]

(jo************@inginix.com) writes:

When I login using QA to my SQL Server database, it takes 15-20 seconds
to establish a connection and open a query window. Drilling into a
database via Enterprise Manager is similar. Once the connection is
established, the server runs plenty fast however.

Can someone tell me why it could take a long time for a connection to
be established?

This behavior occurs when I am local on the box.

One thing to check for is the autoclose on databases. You should be
able to investigate this with sp_helpdb.

Another thing that I have seen is that if I have a QA window open, stop
SQL Server and restart, connections after this takes a long time. Apparently
something is happening to shared memory. Needless to say, these problems
goes away after a reboot.
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