Connection Pooling

Specifies whether to use the driver’s connection pooling.

If enabled, the driver uses connection pooling.

If disabled, the driver does not use connection pooling.

Default: Disabled

Connection Reset

Determines whether the state of connections that are removed from the connection pool for reuse by the application is reset to the initial configuration of the connection.

If enabled, the state of connections removed from the connection pool for reuse by an application is reset to the initial configuration of the connection. Resetting the state can negatively impact performance because additional commands must be sent over the network to the server to reset the state of the connection.

If disabled, the state of connections is not reset.

Default: Disabled

Max Pool Size

The maximum number of connections allowed within a single connection pool. When the maximum number of connections is reached, no additional connections can be created in the connection pool.

Default: 100

Min Pool Size

The minimum number of connections that are opened and placed in a connection pool, in addition to the active connection, when the pool is created. The connection pool retains this number of connections, even when some connections exceed their Load Balance Timeout value.

If set to 0, no connections are opened in addition to the current existing connection.

If set to x, the start-up number of connections in the pool is x in addition to the current existing connection.

Default: 0

Load Balance Timeout

Specifies the number of seconds to keep inactive connections open in a connection pool. An inactive connection is a database session that is not associated with an ODBC connection handle, that is, a connection in the pool that is not in use by an application.

If set to 0, inactive connections are kept open.

If set to x, inactive connections are closed after the specified number of seconds passes.

Default: 0 (inactive connections are kept open.)