Hello, Forgive me for reporting this on the behalf of some other developers, I will gather more details as needed. But the basic problem we're having is with a query that: - is always fast the first time ( < 3 seconds ) - is very slow the following time, when using a connection pool (~ 30 seconds) - is pretty fast the following time, when not using a connection pool (5 or 6 seconds) This is even on a single DB with no other load. It's a fairly complicated query with sub queries, grouping, and such. I've been told it creates two temp tables. I know this is not a whole lot to go one - but are there any pointer for connection pool vs no connection pool on a lightly loaded DB? This was actually tried and reproduced with multiple connection pools - hikari-db, c3p0, and apache connection pool. Take care, -stu