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September 2, 2016updated 17 Jan 2017 5:07pm

What is ODBC?

This API was released in September 1992 to support databases.

By Vinod

Open Database Connectivity (OBDC) is an API, or set of tools and protocols, for creating and accessing database systems.

It is interface that is designed specifically for accessing data in a heterogeneous environment of relational and non- relational database management systems.

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Initially, ODBC was developed by Microsoft during the 1990s. This was conducted to define how a programme should send SQL queries to the database system as part of The Call Level Interface, an API that formed through ODBC.

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