1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
This book describes the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) Application. It is an interface to various SQL databases to and it is a part of the Open Telecom Platform (OTP).
ODBC is written in Erlang and C and is intended to be used in conjunction with Erlang applications. To use the ODBC application it is necessary to install one or more ODBC Drivers written in C. ODBC is a 'pure ODBC 3.0 application', and it is defined in Reference 1. This implies that the application would not work with ODBC 2.x (or earlier) Drivers.
The ODBC application implements a subset of the Core level functionality as specified by the ODBC standard.
Before using the ODBC application it is necessary to install it properly. This includes compiling it with the proper include files, and dynamically linking to libraries of the ODBC Driver.
1.2 Prerequisites
Readers of this manual are assumed to be familiar with the Erlang programming language in general.