Appendix B. SETTING UP DSN
A database in any system can be accessed using the driver provided for it by the vendor. This typically constitutes a vendor-specific solution to data access. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a data access standard that aims at standardizing the data access mechanisms so that a programmer can write the applications without knowing the nuances of how the driver and the database from a vendor behaves. ODBC provides standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and response guidelines for a database. An ODBC Data Source Name (DSN) contains metadata about a particular database. It contains information specific to the connection and location of the database, as well as the driver that manages the database. Java provides ...
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