| title | description | author | ms.author | ms.date | ms.service | ms.subservice | ms.topic | helpviewer_keywords | |||||
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Database Access Architecture |
Database Access Architecture |
David-Engel |
davidengel |
01/19/2017 |
sql |
connectivity |
conceptual |
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One of the questions in the development of ODBC was which part of the database access architecture to standardize. The SQL programming interfaces described in the previous section - embedded SQL, SQL modules, and CLIs - are only one part of this architecture. In fact, because ODBC was primarily intended to connect personal computer-based applications to minicomputer and mainframe DBMSs, there were also a number of network components, some of which could be standardized.
This section contains the following topics.