Is it acceptable to keep a db connection open for the life of the page?

Question

Everybody knows that you should close a connection immediately after you finish using it.

Due to a flaw in my domain object model design, I\'ve had to leave the conn

Answer 1

page crashes? this is what using and finally are for

that said, for the sake of DB performance (i.e. scaling)* it's best to keep connections open as short a period as possible allowing only that you don't want to open close open close open close for rapidly sequential and predictable work

* I was told this by a mentor early in my career, I must say I've not actually tested this myself but it sounds right theoretically