If it's a heavy use site you're create to not use persistent
connections. Otherwise everytime someone hits your webpage the connection
has to be recreated. This adds a LOT of overhead if you're sit is real busy.
At 04:57 PM 3/27/2001 -0800, Oson, Chris M. wrote:
>Mike,
>
>Excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't using persistent connections more
>server resource intensive? I'm trying to optimize the database on
>a heavy site, and I decided not to use persistent connections.
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Betts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:18 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Quezadas
>Subject: Re: MySQL vs MS-SQL performance
>
>
>Steve,
>
>I also experienced the same results you did until I realized that
>the MS-SQL connection was using pooled connections and my
>use of MySQL wasn't. After I started using persistent connections
>to MySQL, it was much faster than MS-SQL on identical hardware
>and no tuning on either system.
>
>Also if you are looking for a performance improvement, drop ODBC
>and try the native API; it's much faster.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
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