Connection pool management

Question

I'm developing a high load web service that would provide as fast response as possible. The service should keep a bunch of connections to various databases for faster performance. I'm suggesting using connection pool for that. There may be connection problems to DB because we have a lot of remote access to the DB through VPN. As I have said, service should retain connection as long as possible.

What is the connection pool management algorithm?

I have a connection string: Code:

User Id=inet;Password=somePassw0rd;Data Source=TEST11;Min Pool Size=5;Max Pool Size=15;Pooling=True

Then I simply open and close connection in my code. That's it.

At this moment everything is OK. There are five sessions on DB side. So I would kill a session to simulate connection problems. And in some cases the connection will be restored by pool manager and in some cases it won't.

If I kill all five connections they are never restored back.

How can I confiure pooling manager? Any settings for duration between checking DB connections?

I have used validate connection=true; it seems to work fine for me, but it would need some effort if reconnect to DB is needed, and therefore it would be more efficient to have an already good connection.

The component I used is devArt dotConnect for Oracle. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you're exactly looking after, but this can be useful: pools are automatically cleared if a connection is idle for some time or closed by the server. However you can force pool clearance, using OracleConnection's ClearPool or ClearAllPools methods (these methods usually exist on most ADO.NET providers, also it's not a requirement).

Note that if you're using Oracle 11g, DotConnect also supports Oracle's Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) which is presumably the best way to do pooling, since it's provided by Oracle itself (I don't have any experience on this though).