ODBC - Driver

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An ODBC driver is just a shared library that implements the ODBC API that provides a common set of function to be able to connect to a data source.

You can then for instance on Linux:

• try to load them: dltest /path/to/driverFile.so
• see their dependency: ldd /path/to/driverFile.so
• …

ODBC drivers are available for most of the databases:

• Oracle,
• SQL Server,
• Sybase,
• DB2 etc.

Each type of database has a different ODBC driver.

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