RE: [PHP] database connections

--- "Kilbride, James P." <James.Kilbride@gd-ais.com> wrote: > While that kind of query structure can be a huge > issue the biggest > problem, and performance penalty, occurs if the > programmer is opening > and closing actual real connections. A good > structure would use a > singleton connection that is opened only the first > time it is called and > the rest of the time returns the connection object > already opened. Or, > use pooling or similar types of things. You will get > orders of magnitude > increase in speed by not reopening the database > multiple times per page > especially if you are seeing 15,20 or especially > hundreds of > connections. Sometimes though you have no real > choice but to build a > system that has to generate multiple queries, so > don't judge the page > simply on the number of queries but on the > completity of the reporting > and the number of database connections opened(you > will occasionally need > more than one if you arn't pulling all the results > at once, using > cursors or partial retrievals instead and have to > have multiple result > sets open at any given time). > > James Kilbride Hey James, Thanks for replying. Sorry, I guess i was not clear on that. Its just one connection, I meant 15-20 queries not connections. Thanks! Ryan ------ - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com