PHP. Руководство по PHP. 2005
odbc_pconnect
odbc_pconnect
Description
resource odbc_pconnect (string dsn, string user, string password [, int cursor_type])Returns an ODBC connection id or 0 (FALSE) on error. This function is much like odbc_connect(), except that the connection is not really closed when the script has finished. Future requests for a connection with the same dsn, user, password combination (via odbc_connect() and odbc_pconnect()) can reuse the persistent connection.
Замечание: Persistent connections have no effect if PHP is used as a CGI program.