# What’s it all about?

- ## 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

- ## Designed and built for speed

- ## Powerful automatic error checking built-in

- ## Valuable detailed call tracing/debugging built-in

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