Open Database Connectivity
ODBC is a functional library designed to provide a common Application Programming Interface (API) to underlying database systems. It communicates with the database through a library driver, just as Windows communicates with a printer via a printer driver. Depending on the database being used, a networking driver may be required to connect to a remote database. The architecture of ODBC is illustrated in Figure 1.6.
Figure 1.6. ODBC structure.
The unique feature of ODBC (as compared to the Oracle or Sybase libraries) is that none of its functions is database-vendor specific. For instance, you can use the same code to perform ...
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