Setting preferences for detecting invalid database connections

You can set global preferences for whether database connections that are invalid are automatically detected and reconnected.

About this task

Connections that are detected as being invalid are displayed with a different icon in the Data Source Explorer.

Procedure

  1. In the Preferences window: Click Windows > Preferences and expand the Data Management and Connectivity nodes.
  2. Click Connection Management.
  3. Specify options, as described.

    You can select to automatically poll all connected databases at regular intervals to determine if they are still valid.

    You can select to have the workbench automatically reconnect to databases that are determined to be invalid, or to prompt for reconnection.

Results

The options you selected are applied.

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