I understand this is probably bad practice; however, I'm asking for educational reasons, not practical.

Say I do the following:
    my $dbh = $self->mysql_connect( $mdatabase, $mhostname, $muser, $m
+pass );

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in a function called say, lookup.. NEVER disconnecting my previous connection

What would happen if I called lookup() 100 times in a row with different parameters. Would we have 100 database connections in memory? Or would each one get closed and a new one established.

My thoughts are that since there is no handle to the memory, then it'll probably just run some sort of cleanup on it. However, I'm curious to know for sure.

Mutt

In reply to DBI Mysql Question by mutt

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