Ok, felt this bug was worth noting. I'm maintaining some code that was originally written to utilize a sql connection code generator called bonebox. I was notified of an error that occured where a few reports that were running were timing out. Upon reviewing my log messages I discovered that the sql server appeared to be blocking during connection attempts. (as a side note: I was informed later that another application I'm not responsible for was stuck and was eating up most of the processing power ......