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>int <B
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>Locates all available database drivers and loads them into memory.</P
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>Frees all loaded drivers and terminates the DBI system. You should close each connection you opened before shutting down, but libdbi will clean up after you if you don't.</P
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>Requests the version of libdbi as a read-only string. The calling program must not attempt to free the returned string.</P
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