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These DBI functions were added in Qore 0.8.6; the original functions used camel case names and had NOOP variants (see Old DBI Functions)
| Key | Description | 
| type | the name of the driver, if present | 
| user | the username given in the string | 
| pass | the password for the connection | 
| db | the database name for the connection | 
| charset | The name of the DB-specific character encoding to use for the connection, if present in the string | 
| host | the hostname for the connection, if present in the string | 
| port | the port number to use for the connection, if present in the string | 
| options | A hash of options given in the string, if present. Special options are "min"and"max", which are respected by the DatasourcePool::constructor(hash) variant for setting the minimum and maximum connections in the pool, respectively; other options are passed to the DBI driver |