# How do I properly close a DuckDb database?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-properly-close-a-duckdb-database/100598>\
**Category:** Data\
**Tags:** database, duckdb\
**Created:** [June 20, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-properly-close-a-duckdb-database/100598 "2023-06-20T11:01:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-i-properly-close-a-duckdb-database/100598/21 "2025-02-21T01:44:28Z")

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Thanks for this. It’s not only that the connection is not closed properly. One can’t even open a read only connection to a duckdb file in Julia when the file is in use on another process. There’s a flag to do this in Python.

```
config = DuckDB.Config()
DuckDB.set_config(config, "access_mode", "READ_ONLY")

db = DuckDB.DB("C:\\Temp\\test.duckdb", config)

```

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