Taming the Stateless Beast Managing Session State Across Servers on a Web Farm

摘要

Running a Web farm means managing session state across servers. Since session state can't be shared across a Web farm with internet Information Services 5.0, a custom solution is required. One such solution using a tool called the session manager is described here. The article begins with a description of the SQL Server database used to store state information, the stored procedures used to update it, and the retrieval of session data. ASP code drives the session manager tool and the COM and COM+ components that run the stored procedures.