# The DBI - What’s it all about?

- ## The Perl DBI defines and implements an interface to databases

  - Plug-in driver modules do the database-specific work
  - DBI provides default methods, functions, tools etc for drivers
  - Not limited to the lowest common denominator

- ## The Perl DBI has built-in…

  - Automatic error checking
  - Detailed call tracing/debugging
  - Flexible call profiling/benchmarking

- ## Designed and built for speed

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