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<h1 align=center>Data item count</h1>
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<p>Once a cursor has been initialized to refer to a particular key in the
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database, it can be used to determine the number of data items that are
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stored for any particular key. The <a href="../../api_c/dbc_count.html">DBcursor->c_count</a> method returns
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this number of data items. The returned value is always one, unless
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the database supports duplicate data items, in which case it may be any
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