June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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Chapter 2. Getting Started: A Simple Tutorial
As an introduction to Berkeley DB, we will present a few Berkeley DB programming concepts and then a simple database application.
The programming concepts are the following:
Key/data pairs
Object handles
Error returns
This database application will do the following:
Create a simple database
Store items
Retrieve items
Remove items
Close the database
The introduction will be presented using the programming language C. The complete source of the final version of the example program is included in the Berkeley DB distribution.