Do db connections in management studio require bandwidth when inactive?

  • This question is really sort of a pointless general curiosity my co-worker & I had...

    If I simply open a connection to a database in my local copy of sql server management studio & do nothing with it for the rest of the day, just simply leaving the db connection open, is data still being passed back and forth between my machine & the db server that whole time?  Even some small minuscule amount?

    Just a random question my co-worker and I were discussing.  He felt there would need to be some small amount of data passed back and forth to keep the connection open to the db.  I disagreed and felt once the connection's open, it doesn't pass data again until you perform an action.  Just curious.

    Thanks

  • if you haven't done anything with it, then I would agree, it's not eating resources. If you opened it, generated a temp table with 1 million rows, then didn't drop the table and didn't close it, then you're bookmarking the resources in tempdb for that temp table until you disconnect.

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