the connection is being dropped. I've seen that error before. Bottom line, the connection to the sever is dropped and is no longer available. It usually happens when you have an open connection to the database and the server goes "off line".

What can you do about it? Not much. Handle the error, save the datalocally and let the user know what the server is no longer available. Other than that, there isn't too much. It's probably easier in this case to test the connection first somehow, make sure the server is still there before actually doing DB access.

-tg