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What happens if a JDBC connection is not explicitly closed? How does connection pooling help in such a scenario?

Tests whether you know an unclosed connection isn't released back to the pool and eventually exhausts it under load, and that pooling mitigates -- but doesn't eliminate -- the need for try-with-resources to guarantee release.

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