However, applications may be linked directly to drivers. Typically, applications are linked against driver managers, which load the appropriate driver libraries. These libraries implement ODBC API functions, which enable applications to speak to databases. Users may also encounter unixODBC, mac:ODBC, and other driver managers. Apple's Jaguar installer provides an iODBC dylibs-based driver manager. OpenLink's default Mac OS X client installer provides an iODBC frameworks-based driver manager. Users may also encounter another driver manager created by Visigenic and maintained by Intersolv, Merant, and Data Direct respectively. OpenLink's Mac Classic client installer provides its own driver manager for this platform. OpenLink's Darwin client installer provides the iODBC driver manager. Users may encounter the following driver managers on Mac client systems: Platform When the applications complete their requests, the driver manager terminates the connections and unloads the drivers. Once the drivers are loaded, the driver manager translates applications' function calls into the corresponding ODBC API calls, and it issues these calls to the drivers. It responds to all ODBC connection requests made by applications, and it loads the ODBC drivers that are associated with the requests. The driver manager is a library, which manages communications between applications and ODBC drivers.

These calls enable the application to connect to the data store and query the data store via the ODBC driver. These API calls are implemented by ODBC drivers that are customized for use with the data store. ODBC-compliant applications are executables, which issue ODBC API calls. Most end users use ODBC-compliant applications to access their data stores.

ODBC data access comprises the following, four components: Application

Oracle Single-Tier drivers recognize these specialized parameters.

MS SQL Server Single-Tier drivers recognize these specialized parameters.

Configuring Mac Classic Data Source Names.

The Multi-Tier Administrative Assistant.

Setting Environment Variables on Darwin.

ODBC Driver Architecture without Driver Manager.

ODBC Driver Architecture with Driver Manager.

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