Objectives
After reading this chapter you should understand:
How to set up the environment needed to develop or run ODBC, CLI, and OLE DB applications.
The basic program flow for developing these types of applications.
Initialization and termination phases within these applications.
How to handle diagnostic and error processing.
The different methods of transaction processing, including preparing and executing SQL statements and the results from the database.
Some advanced programming features.
How to recognize and know when to use the different cursor types that are available to CLI.
The catalog functions available for accessing database system information such as listing available tables.
How to bind array of parameters.
How to insert arrays of data ...
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