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

### Cursor close

The DBcursor->c_close method closes the DBC cursor, after which the cursor may no longer be used. Although cursors are implicitly closed when the database they point to are closed, it is good programming practice to explicitly close cursors. In addition, in transactional systems, cursors may not exist outside of a transaction and so must be explicitly closed.

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