Connection Error Checking

[Andrew Grieve]

Hello

I want to check if my mysql is down every time i connect to the database (not everytime i run a query).
I'm wondering if there is anyway to check if your connection string has actually connected, without doing an error hanling check on an execute?

dbconn = "Driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};server=localhost;uid=something;pwd=something;database=somethingt"

In php, you can use the command die()

"$link = mysql_connect( $server, $user, $pass );
if (!$link)
die('A connection to the mySQL
server could not be established');"

But I'm using ASP, (the old version of Asp, not asp.net)

Does anyone have an idea?

Thank you
Andrew