<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DB->err()</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="apiReference.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB C API Reference" /> <link rel="up" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. The DB Handle" /> <link rel="prev" href="dbdel.html" title="DB->del()" /> <link rel="next" href="dbexists.html" title="DB->exists()" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">DB->err()</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbdel.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. 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