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<p>When using the non-cursor Berkeley DB calls to retrieve key/data items under
the C/C++ APIs (for example, <a href="../api_reference/C/dbget.html" class="olink">DB-&gt;get()</a>), the memory to which the
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<p>When using the cursor Berkeley DB calls to retrieve key/data items under the
C/C++ APIs (for example, <a href="../api_reference/C/dbcget.html" class="olink">DBC-&gt;get()</a>), the memory to which the
pointer stored into the <a href="../api_reference/C/dbt.html" class="olink">DBT</a> refers is only valid until the next
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