can I reuse database connections?

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

I'm new to the list.
I'm writing a database interaction module as part of a set of
interrelated perl modules.

The module is called something like this:
        my $d = Solution::DB->new();
        $d->put('this', 'into', 'that');
        $d->get('those', 'where', 'this');
        $d->update('those', 'where', 'this', 'with', 'that');
        etc...

can I make the database connection on new() and keep reusing it until $d
is destroyed?

Thanks
Rory
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