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Dec 17

JBoss and Sesame Street’s Count

One, One database record!
Two, Two database record!
Muahahaha!

By default, when using datasources with JBoss, it does a count to validate a connection, both on creation and when it is requested from the connection pool.  It looks something like:

select count(*) from x

Now, this can take take a while when working with tables containing 1.8 million rows and growing.  That said, the datasource config file has two properties which can be set:

  • new-connection-sql
  • check-valid-connection-sql

These allow you to specify something like

count 1 from x

which runs a good bit faster.

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