Get an overview of JDBC's architecture, then learn how to connect to a database and handle SQL queries and responses with PreparedStatements, transactions, connection pooling, and more.

Connection pooling in ADO.Net lets you reuse database connections and improves data access performance ...

The OLE DB infrastructure offers database connection pooling features, but many performance tests have shown that caching database connections wrapped inside COM+ pooled objects manually ...

If you want connection pooling (and I assume a shared cache against the database) I don't think you have any choice but write a separate daemon.

The OLE DB infrastructure offers database connection pooling features, but many performance tests have shown that caching database connections wrapped inside COM+ pooled objects manually outperforms ...