1 The SQL-ODBC Library
1.1 Introduction
Functional Developer's SQL-ODBC library provides a generic Dylan protocol for interfacing applications to any database management system (DBMS) supporting Microsoft's Open Database ConnectivityTM (ODBC) interface and the industry-standard database query language, SQL. The SQL-OBDC library supports the full SQL language defined in the ANSI SQL-89 and ANSI SQL-92 specifications, as well as any extensions defined by a DBMS.
A low-level interface to the Microsoft ODBC API is also available in the ODBC-FFI library. Functional Objects built the ODBC-FFI library using the C-FFI library and the same C-to-Dylan name mapping scheme as described in the Win32 API FFI library documentation. See the C FFI and Win32 library reference for details of that scheme. The ODBC-FFI library is otherwise undocumented.