Demonstrates the configuration of a connection pool size and overflow when connecting to Cloud SQL for SQL Server using SQLAlchemy.

## Explore further


For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

- [Manage database connections](https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/manage-connections.md.txt)

## Code sample

### Python


To authenticate to Cloud SQL for SQL Server, set up Application Default Credentials.
For more information, see

[Set up authentication for a local development environment](https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/set-up-adc-local-dev-environment.md.txt).

```python
# Pool size is the maximum number of permanent connections to keep.
pool_size=5,
# Temporarily exceeds the set pool_size if no connections are available.
max_overflow=2,
# The total number of concurrent connections for your application will be
# a total of pool_size and max_overflow.
```

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