Description: Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit.
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### Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Access Methods

# Deleting records

The DB->del function is the standard function for retrieving records from the database. In general, the delete function takes a key and deletes the data item associated with it from the database.

If the database has been configured to support duplicate records, the DB->del function will remove all of the duplicate records. To remove individual duplicate records, you must use a Berkeley DB cursor interface.