Does EF Core have a connection pool?

Question

The DbContext of EF Core is scoped in the ASP.NET Core services. So a new DbContext is created on each request. Does this mean that a new connection is opened on each request, including all the overhead like logging in to the database? Or is there a connection pool that is independent of the DbContext?

Answer 1

The underlying ADO.NET provider like System.Data.SqlClient usually implements a connection pool