The Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface is a C programming language interface defined by Microsoft Corporation as a standard interface to database management systems in the Windows and Windows NT environments.
ODBC reference online The primary documentation for ODBC application development provided with SQL Anywhere is the ODBC application programming interface (API) online Help. |
Applications using the ODBC interface can work with many different database systems. SQL Anywhere supports the ODBC API on DOS, OS/2, and QNX in addition to the Windows and Windows NT environments. By having multi-platform ODBC support, SQL Anywhere makes portable database application development much easier.
This chapter presents information for those developing ODBC interfaces to SQL Anywhere. Users of application development systems that already have ODBC support do not need to read this chapter.