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You've designed an application that requires only a single connection to a database. Different components of the application run unique queries against tables in the database. The database object is globally accessible to all objects in the system. You could define a global database object, but there is no feature in the Microsoft Visual Basic language to prevent a client from creating another instance. Implementing a Singleton design pattern will allow you to control the number of database objects that can be created.