Open Database Connectivity
Microsoft Open Database Connectivity, better known as ODBC, is a standardized API method for allowing software applications to access a variety of different databases. This is used to allow the programmer to write to the ODBC API and not have to implement multiple API interfaces to each type of database that they want to be able to access.


Additional References
Microsoft ODBC Start Page
Wikipedia description of ODBC


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