title: Drupal 7, Get PDO Connection Handle?
body: <p>Drupal 7 seems to be doing a very good job at hiding most of the database layer away.</p>
  
  <p>All I want is the connection handle so I can do some sql without going through db_query for testing and to hand off to a reporting client so it doesn't open a new connection.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me how to get a hold of the PDO connection from drupal?</p>