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 ...

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 ...

TOTD #9 explained how to configure JDBC connection pooling for Rails application deployed on GlassFish v2. There are several benefits of using using the JDBC connection pools: No need to create a new ...

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