connectionpooling

Author: ambhatna

articles/mariadb/concepts-limits.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ When connections exceed the limit, you may receive the following error:
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > For best experience, we recommend that you use a connection pooler like ProxySQL to efficiently manage connections.
 
-A MariaDB connection, even idle, can occupy resources. Also, creating new connections takes time. Most applications request many short-lived connections, which compounds this situation. The result is fewer resources available for your actual workload leading to decreased performance. A connection pooler that decreases idle connections and reuses existing connections will help avoid this. To learn about setting up ProxySQL, visit our [blog post](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/load-balance-read-replicas-using-proxysql-in-azure-database-for/ba-p/880042).
+Creating new client connections to MariaDB takes time and once established, these connections occupy database resources, even when idle. Most applications request many short-lived connections, which compounds this situation. The result is fewer resources available for your actual workload leading to decreased performance. A connection pooler that decreases idle connections and reuses existing connections will help avoid this. To learn about setting up ProxySQL, visit our [blog post](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/load-balance-read-replicas-using-proxysql-in-azure-database-for/ba-p/880042).
 
 ## Storage engine support
 

articles/mysql/concepts-limits.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ When connections exceed the limit, you may receive the following error:
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > For best experience, we recommend that you use a connection pooler like ProxySQL to efficiently manage connections.
 
-A MySQL connection, even idle, can occupy resources. Also, creating new connections takes time. Most applications request many short-lived connections, which compounds this situation. The result is fewer resources available for your actual workload leading to decreased performance. A connection pooler that decreases idle connections and reuses existing connections will help avoid this. To learn about setting up ProxySQL, visit our [blog post](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/load-balance-read-replicas-using-proxysql-in-azure-database-for/ba-p/880042).
+Creating new client connections to MySQL takes time and once established, these connections occupy database resources, even when idle. Most applications request many short-lived connections, which compounds this situation. The result is fewer resources available for your actual workload leading to decreased performance. A connection pooler that decreases idle connections and reuses existing connections will help avoid this. To learn about setting up ProxySQL, visit our [blog post](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/load-balance-read-replicas-using-proxysql-in-azure-database-for/ba-p/880042).
 
 ## Storage engine support