# Multiple connections from a single application

A single application can work with multiple Connections to the same database and assign them to different threads.

You can avoid concurrency and deadlock problems in your application in several ways:

- Use the TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED isolation level and turn on row-level locking (the defaults).
- Beware of deadlocks caused by using more than one Connection in a single thread (the most obvious case). For example, if the thread tries to update the same table from two different `Connections`, a deadlock can occur.
- Assign Connections to threads that handle discrete tasks. For example, do not have two threads update the Hotels table. Have one thread update the Hotels table and a different one update the Groups table.
- If threads access the same tables, commit transactions often.
- Multi-threaded Java applications have the ability to self-deadlock without even accessing a database, so beware of that too.
- Use nested connections to share the same lock space.

Parent topic: Working with multiple connections to a single database
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