Title: Database Connections
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Connections

 *  [phsailor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phsailor/)
 * (@phsailor)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connections/)
 * I am a S/W Developer, new to Web/WordPress programming. I know that a database
   has a finite number of connections available. Now, lets say I have a blog that
   displays a simple post. The way I expect things to work is that a person gets
   on my site. A database connection is opened, the post is retrieved from a table
   and then the connection is closed. This would allow a large amount of people 
   to view my site at the same time and leave my site open all day. I get feeling
   that using the $wpdb means that a connections is open all the time. I hope this
   is not the case. Could someone please explain. Does a connection get closed when
   $wpdb goes out of scope?
    Thanks

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * Last reply from: [phsailor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phsailor/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connections/)
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