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ODBC (Open Database Connectivity from Microsoft) is a standard for client applications accessing data from a variety of data sources through a single interface. Users of applications supporting ODBC merely select a new database from a point-and-click menu to connect transparently to that data source.
ODBC is the standard mechanism for client applications to access data from a variety of different sources through a single interface. Users of applications supporting ODBC merely select a new database from a point-and-click menu to connect transparently to that data source.
To become accessible from ODBC client applications, database environments must provide software, called a driver, on the client system where the application resides. The driver translates the standard ODBC function calls into calls the data source can process and returns data to the application. Each data source provides a driver on the client system for applications to use to access data from that source.
The FairCom ODBC Driver extends this plug-and-play interoperability to the FairCom Database Engine. It allows any Microsoft Windows tool or application that supports ODBC to easily use c-tree as a data source. With it, applications based on tools such as Visual Basic can include FairCom DB SQL as a data source.
