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The ODBC programming interface


ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a standard call level interface (CLI) developed by Microsoft. It is based on the SQL Access Group CLI specification. ODBC applications can run against any data source that provides an ODBC driver. ODBC is a good choice for a programming interface if you would like your application to be portable to other data sources that have ODBC drivers.

ODBC is a low-level interface. Almost all the Adaptive Server Anywhere functionality is available with this interface. ODBC is available as a DLL under Windows operating systems with the exception of Windows CE. It is provided as a library for UNIX.

The primary documentation for ODBC is the Microsoft ODBC Software Development Kit. The current book provides some additional notes specific to Adaptive Server Anywhere for ODBC developers.

ODBC is described in ODBC Programming.


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