It is very common for me to look at a customer’s database and notice a lot of overhead from checking whether a database connection is active before sending a query to it. This comes from the following design pattern, written in pseudo-code:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | function query_database(connection, sql) if !connection.is_alive() and !connection.reconnect() then throw exception end return connection.execute(sql) end |
Many of the popular development platforms do something similar to this. Two [...]
