Described herein are systems and methods for providing access to a database in a multi-tenant environment, including the use of a connection pool, and support for server-side connection pool multiple tagging. For example, the system can provide a capability to associate multiple connection properties with a particular server-side connection in, e.g., an Oracle Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) environment; look up a connection with one or multiple properties; and provide information about a returned connection so that a requesting application can review the properties associated with the returned connection, in order to determine how best to “fix-up” or otherwise use that connection.