[Erlang Systems]

1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction

This manual describes the Erlang ODBC Application. ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) was designed to provide an interface to databases access. It has become popular and is generally accepted as standard. The Erlang ODBC application provide an interface to database access for Erlang.

The Erlang ODBC application is a 'pure ODBC 3.0 application', which is defined in Reference 1. The Erlang ODBC application is not compatible with ODBC 2.x, or earlier, drivers.

The Erlang ODBC application supports a subset of the Core level functionality specified in the ODBC standard.

The Erlang ODBC application consist of Erlang code and C code. The Erlang code is compiled. The C code is not compiled for Unix and Linux and must be compiled by the user. The C code is compiled for Windows NT and Windows 2000.
C code consist of library and header files, which must be included when compiling. How this is done is described further in the next chapters.

1.2 Prerequisites

Readers of this manual are assumed to be familiar with the Erlang programming language in general.


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