I've got something bugging me and as i'm not a hard core programmer
its got me beat - anyone who can point me in the right direction or
help me solve it would be my hero for at least the next five minutes.
Ok, here's the scenario - a corporate intranet, where selected pages
have parts of information that come from a database such as news
articles or an events calendar. Due to the geographic spread of the
organisation, the physical ASP pages are mirrored out to the remote
sites via DFS and the address for the intranet has a local alias which
accesses the copy from the local IIS server.
However, when the SQL server goes down or the sites lose their
internet connectivity, pages pulling dynamic content will return
errors. Ideally, when the page loads and it's unable to connect to the
DB, it would skip running the code, repeats, etc and instead return a
message in place such as "DB not available, try again later".
SQL connection strings for pages are available from both
web.config
and an include file.
My questions: