title: What is the connection pool associated with?
body: <p>I'm reading about connection pooling in .net and i'm not sure if i'm getting it right. They say that a closed connection is returned to the pool so that it can be reused later. But what is the pool associated with? Is it a database or just the application environment (computer it is executed on)? If it's the latter, then if you have two users opening their applications at two different computers and requesting the same connection one after another, the connection pooling doesn't make the difference, am i right?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: of course i know it will make a difference if the same app opens the same connection again, but what about two different instances of the same app?</p>