"Get thee to a connection pooler ASAP."
We've got systems where we establish ~1K connections, but that's on
UNIX, where the handling of large systems is *WAY* more mature than
Windows.
Any time those kinds of quantities of connections appear necessary, it
seems highly preferable to be using connection pooling so as to try to
reduce the number of actual connections and to increase the
per-connection usage.
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