# Connection Pooling

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The ADO.NET provider for Google Analytics implements connection pooling to reduce the efforts of repeatedly opening and closing connections. A connection pool is a cache of database connections maintained where the user can **reuse existing active connections** with the same connection string instead of creating new connections when a request is made to the database.

Connection pools are used to enhance the performance of executing commands on a database. The provider by default supports pooling as the [UsePool](/componentone/api/services/online-dataconnector/dotnet-standard-api/C1.DataConnector/C1.DataConnector.C1ConnectionStringBuilder.UsePool.html) property is set to **True**. However, pooling can be disabled by setting the **UsePool** property to **False**.

The following example demonstrates the implementation of connection pooling in the ADO.NET provider for Google Analytics.

```csharp
//Define connection string
string connectionString = string.Format("Key File={0};View Id={1}", KeyFile, ViewId); 
// With Connection Pooling: It saves time by reusing existing connections from the pool
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
    C1GoogleAnalyticsConnection conn = new C1GoogleAnalyticsConnection($@"{connectionString};Use Pool=true;");
    conn.Open();//Soft connections are build
    //Perform Your Operation 
    conn.Close();//Connection is returned to the connection pool
}
```

The following example demonstrates how to disable connection pooling by setting the "Use Pool" property to false in the connection string.

```csharp
//Define connection string
string connectionString = string.Format("Key File={0};View Id={1}", KeyFile, ViewId); 
//Without Connection Pooling
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
    C1GoogleAnalyticsConnection conn = new C1GoogleAnalyticsConnection($@"{connectionString};Use Pool=false;");//By default pooling is true
    conn.Open(); //A new connection is created each time 
    //Perform Your Operation 
    conn.Close();//Connection object is moved to garbage collection
}
```