Re: Disconnect database connection after idle timeout

Dave Morgan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/13/2014 09:42 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Dr James Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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

MySQL I don't know, Oracle, every connection should be persistent if you are making more than a single call
>
>
>  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.

I hate to quote myself but .....

> On 11/13/2014 08:00 AM, Dave Morgan wrote:>
>> Idle db connections cost almost nothing, establishing a connection is expensive.
>>
>> Warning: I am better at Oracle than perl, and I am not very good with either :)
>>

Making a new connection to Oracle 11 or 12 is still painfully expensive.

Dave


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