ASA Programming Guide
  Deploying Databases and Applications
    Deploying client applications
      Deploying embedded SQL clients

Connection information

You can deploy embedded SQL connection information in one of the following ways:

• Manual    Provide your end-users with instructions for creating an appropriate data source on their machine.

• File    Distribute a file that contains connection information in a format that your application can read.

• ODBC data source    You can use an ODBC data source to hold connection information. In this case, you need a subset of the ODBC redistributable files, available from Microsoft. For details see Deploying ODBC clients.

• Hard coded    You can hard code connection information into your application. This is an inflexible method, which may be limiting, for example when databases are upgraded.