Seeing this error pretty regularly running Passenger and Apache on an Azure Ubuntu VM talking with SQL Azure... could this be a configuration issue? Possibly with timeouts? It happens after the instance idles following a successful request.
Caused ActiveRecord::LostConnection: TinyTds::Error: DBPROCESS is dead or not enabled: EXEC sp_executesql N'SELECT TOP (1) [customers].* FROM [customers] WHERE [customers].[id] = 1'