Chapter 20. ODBC Programming

by David Bennett and Chuck Wood

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The Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) library is provided with Visual C++ to allow your applications to connect to a wide variety of different databases. It provides a common programming interface for accessing databases ranging from simple ASCII files to much more complex mainframe databases. ODBC uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to access all the data sources it supports, including data sources such as text files, which aren't traditionally ...

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