The Essentials Series: Open Database Connectivity
By Mark Scott

Database connections are the lifeblood of enterprise applications, administrating the secure and steady flow of information between corporate applications and their persistent relational databases. Optimizing these connections can usher in widespread improvements in information management and improvements in server and network resource utilization.

This article looks at the characteristics of efficient, well designed ODBC driver suites, such as communication strategies and compiled architectures. It addresses key areas of resource optimization in memory, cpu utilization and network bandwidth. It helps the reader consider the challenges of enterprise scalability.