Code comment that explains how failed connections are retried when connecting to Cloud SQL for SQL Server using the Node.js mssql module.

## Explore further


For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

- [Manage database connections](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/manage-connections.md.txt)

## Code sample

### Node.js


To authenticate to Cloud SQL for SQL Server, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for a local development environment](https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/set-up-adc-local-dev-environment.md.txt).

```javascript
// The node-mssql module uses a built-in retry strategy which does not implement backoff.
// 'createRetryIntervalMillis' is the number of milliseconds to wait in between retries.
config.pool.createRetryIntervalMillis = 200;
```

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