What is Open Database Connectivity* (ODBC)?
*Comes with 10 User package This set of application programming interfaces, defines how to move information in and out of any PC database that supports the standard. ODBC applications operate on data sources, an abstraction that includes information such as location, network libraries, client libraries, database name, and similar unique identifiers. The amount of information needed to specify location is context dependent. For text data on a local hard drive, it may be simply path information. Remote servers may involve specifying domain names, node names, IP addresses, or other things. Transferring data from and to an Appgen database is possible in several different ways. The easiest and most popular method utilizes ODBC. With Appgen, you may define any views of the application data to allow your users to easily transfer data between their Appgen applications and current versions of almost all popular desktop productivity products available today, such as: Microsoft Office, Crystal Re