# Working with multiple connections to a single database

This section discusses deploying Derby so that many connections can exist to a single database.

- Deployment options and threading and connection modes
  A database can be available to multiple connections in several situations.
- Multi-user database access
  Multi-user database access is possible if Derby is running inside a server framework.
- Multiple connections from a single application
  A single application can work with multiple Connections to the same database and assign them to different threads.

Parent topic: Controlling Derby application behavior
Related concepts
The JDBC connection and transaction model
Result set and cursor mechanisms
Locking, concurrency, and isolation
Working with multiple threads sharing a single connection
Working with database threads in an embedded environment
Working with Derby SQLExceptions in an application