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ODBC Driver Guide
Overview of ODBC
The ODBC interface from Microsoft has emerged as the standard mechanism for client applications to access data from a variety of different sources through a single interface. Users of applications that support ODBC merely select a new database from a point-and-click menu to connect, transparently, to data from that data source.
- ODBC, Microsoft’s Open Data Base Connectivity has become the de facto database access standard on the desktop.
- Desktop tools and applications that support ODBC can access any data source supported by an ODBC driver. These tools include client/server development, query, and personal productivity tools.
To become accessible from ODBC client applications, database environments must provide software, called an ODBC driver, on the client system where the application resides. The driver translates the standard ODBC function calls into calls the data source can process, and returns data to the application. Each data source provides a driver on the client system for applications to use to access data from that source.
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