what is odbc?

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) provides a standard software API method for using database management systems.
It was designed to be independent of programming language, database system and operating system. Now, it provides the standard of ubiquitous data access because hundreds of ODBC drivers exist for a large variety of data sources.
ODBC operates with a variety of operating systems and drivers exist for non-relational data such as spreadsheets, text and XML files.

advantages of odbc

• dynamic data binding

• portable data access to code

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