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<h1 class="title">Introduction</h1>
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The <em>mysqli</em> extension allows you to access the
functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above. More information about
the MySQL Database server can be found at
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<h2 class="title">Examples</h2>
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All examples in the <em>mysqli</em> documentation use the world database.
The world database can be found at
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