A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

The ability to open several connections to a database and distribute those connections to the next available request for data. On the Web, connection pooling is performed to improve performance.

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...