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.

So I'm writing a Samba virtual file system plugin. It has a nice, clean API, and I quickly had the basic functionality down. Problem is, I need database connections to do some access checking. Right ...

Using COM+ pooled objects to cache and reuse valuable resources is one of the most effective ways to boost performance in server-side .NET and COM-based applications. Database connections are among ...

The only way to deploy a Rails application on GlassFish v2 is to create a WAR file using Warbler. That’s a great option and is already used in production mode. GlassFish v3 takes that to the next ...

The database support in Qt 4.x is quite robust. The library includes drivers for Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite and many other relational databases. Out of the box, the Qt database library also contains ...