<p class="Paragraph">Here you define how the connections to data sources are pooled.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">Creating a connection to a data source costs time and resources. Therefore this facility allows you to stipulate that connections that are no longer needed are not deleted immediately, but are kept free for a certain period of time. If a new connection to the data source is needed in that period, the free connection can be used for this purpose.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this box is marked, the connections you have chosen are pooled.</help:help-text> If the box is not marked, no connection is pooled.</p>
<p class="Head2">Drivers recognized in <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Here you see a list of drivers and the connection data you have defined.</p>
<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="OFFMGR_CHECKBOX_RID_OFAPAGE_CONNPOOLOPTIONS_CB_DRIVERPOOLING" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Pooling connections to these drivers</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select a driver from the list and mark this box in order to pool its connection.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">When a connection is pooled, here you can select the time in seconds after which the connection will be freed.</help:help-text> The time can be anywhere between 30 and 600 seconds.</p>