From: Warren Young Date: August 17 2005 4:30pm Subject: Re: VS 2005 Beta Query=> has gone away ... List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/4758 Message-Id: <43036608.7090106@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit np@stripped wrote: > "MYSQL has gone away" This usually means that the connection was dropped before you execute the query. In MySQL++, the Connection object must have a lifetime at least as long as all other uses of MySQL++ tied to that connection. > qry-->use(); I hope that's a typo for "qry->use();"... > (2003 is really bugy ...) Forgive my skepticism, but I have a hard time believing that a Microsoft beta is more stable than its two-year-old predecessor with service packs.