On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Dr James Smith <j...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> From experience - and having chatted with our DBAs at work, with modern > Oracle and with MySQL keeping persistent connections around is no real gain > and usually lots of risks It's certainly good to know how long it takes to get a fresh connection and consider whether you need persistent connections or not. Connecting tends to be fast on MySQL and caching is probably not needed unless you're running a very performance-sensitive site. The last time I worked with Oracle, connections were too slow to run without caching them. That was years ago though, and the situation may have improved. - Perrin
