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<h1 align=center>Object handles</h1>
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<p>With a few minor exceptions, Berkeley DB functionality is accessed by creating
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a structure and then calling functions that are fields in that structure.
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This is, of course, similar to object-oriented concepts, of instances and
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methods on them. For simplicity, we will often refer to these structure
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fields as methods of the handle.
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<p>The manual pages will show these methods as C structure references. For
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example, the open-a-database method for a database handle is represented
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