Keeping JDBC out of the picture, we have found that you want to keep ping delays between the appserver instance and the DB server to less than 10 milliseconds.C:\TEMP>ping db.company.comPinging db.company.com [192.150.23.6] with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 192.150.23.6: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=255Repl...