ODBC Architecture Overview
In a typical ODBC application, there are five components: the client application, the ODBC driver manager, a database-specific driver, an ODBC-compliant database server, and a data source.
The ODBC Client Application
The client application is the component that you have to write. Typically, an ODBC client is written in C or C++. The client interacts with a database by opening a data source (which I will describe in a moment), sending requests to the data source, and processing results.
The ODBC Driver Manager
The ODBC driver manager gets involved when the client application opens a data source. The driver manager is responsible for converting a data source name into a data source handle. After the client has provided ...
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