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    Takes care of ensuring that the database handle is still connected and
    valid. If the handle was last asked for more than
    `connection_check_threshold' seconds ago, it will check that the
    connection is still alive, using either the `$dbh->ping' method if the
    DBD driver supports it, or performing a simple no-op query against the
    database if not. If the connection has gone away, a new connection will
    be obtained and returned. This avoids any problems for a long-running
    script where the connection to the database might go away.

    Care is taken that handles are not shared across processes/threads, so
    this should be thread-safe with no issues with transactions etc. (Thanks
    to Matt S Trout for pointing out the previous lack of thread safety.
    Inspiration was drawn from DBIx::Connector.)

CONFIGURATION
    Connection details will be taken from your Dancer application config
    file, and should be specified as, for example:

        plugins:
            Database:
                driver: 'mysql'
                database: 'test'
                host: 'localhost'
                port: 3306
                username: 'myusername'
                password: 'mypassword'
                connection_check_threshold: 10
                dbi_params:
                    RaiseError: 1
                    AutoCommit: 1
                on_connect_do: ["SET NAMES 'utf8'", "SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'" ]
                log_queries: 1
                handle_class: 'My::Super::Sexy::Database::Handle'

    The `connection_check_threshold' setting is optional, if not provided,
    it will default to 30 seconds. If the database keyword was last called
    more than this number of seconds ago, a quick check will be performed to
    ensure that we still have a connection to the database, and will
    reconnect if not. This handles cases where the database handle hasn't
    been used for a while and the underlying connection has gone away.

    The `dbi_params' setting is also optional, and if specified, should be
    settings which can be passed to `DBI->connect' as its fourth argument;
    see the DBI documentation for these.

    The optional `on_connect_do' setting is an array of queries which should
    be performed when a connection is established; if given, each query will
    be performed using `$dbh->do'. (If using MySQL, you might want to use
    this to set `SQL_MODE' to a suitable value to disable MySQL's built-in
    free data loss 'features', for example:

      on_connect_do: "SET SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL'"

    (If you're not familiar with what I mean, I'm talking about the insane
    default behaviour of "hmm, this bit of data won't fit the column you're
    trying to put it in.. hmm, I know, I'll just munge it to fit, and throw
    a warning afterwards - it's not like you're relying on me to, y'know,
    store what you ask me to store". See
    http://effectivemysql.com/presentation/mysql-idiosyncrasies-that-bite/
    for just one illustration. In hindsight, I wish I'd made a sensible
    `sql_mode' a default setting, but I don't want to change that now.)

    The optional `log_queries' setting enables logging of queries generated
    by the helper functions `quick_insert' et al in
    Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle. If you enable it, generated queries
    will be logged at 'debug' level. Be aware that they will contain the
    data you're passing to/from the database, so be careful not to enable
    this option in production, where you could inadvertently log sensitive
    information.

    If you prefer, you can also supply a pre-crafted DSN using the `dsn'
    setting; in that case, it will be used as-is, and the
    driver/database/host settings will be ignored. This may be useful if
    you're using some DBI driver which requires a peculiar DSN.

    The optional `handle_class' defines your own class into which database
    handles should be blessed. This should be a subclass of
    Dancer::Plugin::Database::Core::Handle (or DBI::db directly, if you just want
    to skip the extra features).

    You will require slightly different options depending on the database
    engine you're talking to. For instance, for SQLite, you won't need to
    supply `hostname', `port' etc, but will need to supply `database' as the
    name of the SQLite database file:

        plugins:
            Database:
                driver: SQLite
                database: 'foo.sqlite'

    For Oracle, you may want to pass `sid' (system ID) to identify a
    particular database, e.g.:

        plugins:
            Database:
                driver: Oracle
                host: localhost
                sid: ABC12

  DEFINING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS
    If you need to connect to multiple databases, this is easy - just list
    them in your config under `connections' as shown below:

        plugins:
            Database:
                connections:
                    foo:
                        driver: "SQLite"
                        database: "foo.sqlite"
                    bar:
                        driver: "mysql"
                        host: "localhost"
                        ....

    Then, you can call the `database' keyword with the name of the database
    connection you want, for example:

        my $foo_dbh = database('foo');
        my $bar_dbh = database('bar');