### Connecting To A Database ```go import ( "github.com/jinzhu/gorm" _ "github.com/lib/pq" _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql" _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3" ) func init() { db, err := gorm.Open("postgres", "user=gorm dbname=gorm sslmode=disable") // db, err := gorm.Open("mysql", "user:password@/dbname?charset=utf8&parseTime=True&loc=Local") // db, err := gorm.Open("sqlite3", "/tmp/gorm.db") // Use existing database connection dbSql, err := sql.Open("postgres", "user=gorm dbname=gorm sslmode=disable") db, err := gorm.Open("postgres", dbSql) } ``` ```go // Get database connection handle [*sql.DB](http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#DB) db.DB() // Then you could invoke `*sql.DB`'s functions with it db.DB().Ping() db.DB().SetMaxIdleConns(10) db.DB().SetMaxOpenConns(100) // Disable table name's pluralization db.SingularTable(true) ```