DB2Connection trouble within a BackgroundWorker

[seraieis]

I have a program that, within a BackgroundWorke r, runs a small SELECT query from a DB2 Database. The basic form looks like this:

BackgroundWorkerFunction(BackgroundWorker b)
  - open DB2Connection
  - run query
  - close DB2Connection
  - RaiseEvent QueryDone

Now, I've been very careful not to put a DB2Connection within a loop, because I don't want to open multiple connections. However, when we monitor the database, we are seeing multiple connections (per machine) when we would expect to see only one.

Can the BackgroundWorke r act like a loop, so that there are multiple connections opening? I always assumed that the point of the BackgroundWorke r class was for multithreading, but in this instance it's looking more like a loop.

Am I making sense, or am I just going crazy?

Thanks in advance!