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ASA Programming Guide
  ODBC Programming

Introduction to ODBC


The Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface is an application programming interface defined by Microsoft Corporation as a standard interface to database-management systems on Windows operating systems. ODBC is a call-based interface.

To write ODBC applications for Adaptive Server Anywhere, you need:

Supported platforms 

Adaptive Server Anywhere supports the ODBC API on UNIX and Windows CE, in addition to Windows. Having multi-platform ODBC support makes portable database application development much easier.

For information on enlisting the ODBC driver in distributed transactions, see Three-tier Computing and Distributed Transactions.


ODBC conformance

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