Date: 07/20/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: mysql, sql

What is auto reconnect in MySQL? The MySQL client library can perform an automatic reconnect to the server if it finds that the connection is down when you attempt to send a statement to the server to be executed. In this case, the library tries once to reconnect to the server and send the statement again. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-enable-disable-auto-reconnect-in-mysql/