Database Access
Database programming keeps getting easier. ODBC, Microsoft's Open DataBase
Connectivity package, enables your code to call API functions that access a huge
variety of database files - Oracle, DBase, an Excel spreadsheet, a plain text file, old
legacy mainframe systems using SQL, whatever! You call a standard name function, and
the API provided by the database vendor or a third party handles the translation. The
details are in Chapters 22, "Database Access," and 23, "SQL and the Enterprise Edition."
Connectivity package, enables your code to call API functions that access a huge
variety of database files - Oracle, DBase, an Excel spreadsheet, a plain text file, old
legacy mainframe systems using SQL, whatever! You call a standard name function, and
the API provided by the database vendor or a third party handles the translation. The
details are in Chapters 22, "Database Access," and 23, "SQL and the Enterprise Edition."
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