The Nuts and Bolts of ODBC
We’ll now take a look at the main features of ODBC that set it apart from the DBI and that enable it to work well as a database-independent interface. The four main features are:
A standard SQL syntax
Standard error codes
Rich metadata
Many attributes and options
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