The EasyMySQL npm eliminates these callbacks and uses a connection pool, so it 
only opens a new connection when needed.

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On Apr 8, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Matthew Hazlett <hazl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thats how I originally did it, but when you need to do multiple queries to 
> the database you shoud open the connection once and reuse it instead of 
> opening it multiple times a session.
> 
> 
> On 4/8/2012 9:14 PM, Matt Patenaude wrote:
>> 
>> I agree, it seems entirely manageable.
>> 
>> One low-overhead option would be just to split that out into a function, if 
>> it's used frequently:
>> 
>> function dbQuery(query, callback){
>>    db.open(... fn() {
>>        db.collection(.... fn() {
>>             db.query(query, callback);
>>         });
>>     });
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> dbQuery("SELET * FROM blah", fn() {
>>     // stuff you would have done in the inner-most part here
>> });
>> 
>> 
>> -Matt
>> 
>> On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> 
>>> >  But as you can see this creates callback hell. 
>>> 
>>> It doesn't look that bad to me.
>>> 
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