be notified when connections = 5

I would like to be notified of when my database connection hit 5. That way I know when I ned to upgrade from msde to standard edition. I have the server email ready but not sure how to moniter the connections.Create an alert in performance monitor.|||sounds streight forward thanks.|||The limitation on MSDE is on 5 concurrently running processes. You can periodically check DBCC CONCURRENCYVIOLATION (sp?) to see if you have hit that limit. So long as you keep the queries short, you could concievably keep 20 or 30 people happy enough with the application.|||it is one of those situations where I really do not know how many users I will get at a time. That is why I want to have a way to moniter it. If I have to by the full version fine, if I can hold of awhile great.|||The concurrent workload governor looks at concurrent batches - not connections. Knowing that, I would enable the logging using the DBCC CONCURRENCYVIOLATION(STARTLOG) command and/or use active transactions in the performance monitor.|||ok, great. thanks for the info.