Re: ODBC

[Rick Murphy <rmurphy () itm-inst com>]

> Huh? I am very weak on database stuff, but I was of the impression that
> ODBC *wasn't* an on-the-wire protocol, but rather a calling convention for
> database libraries so that arbitrary drivers could interoperate with
> arbitrary database-enabled programs.
Exactly correct. ODBC is a database access API. The underlying database
libraries may use a network protocol to converse with the database,
but they're wildly different. (An application I support will work with
Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server - all of which have different network
protocols.)
        -Rick