## 1 Introduction

### 1.1 Introduction

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

The Erlang ODBC application is a 'pure ODBC 3.0 application', and it is defined in Reference 1. The 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 pre-compiled but the code written in C code must be compiled by the user. C-code consist of an import library and header files, which must be included when compiling. How this is done is described further in the next section.

### 1.2 Prerequisites

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

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