This chapter discusses creating and configuring SQL Server data sources. Once a SQL Server data source is created, an ODBC application can connect to SQL Server using the data source.
Connecting to a SQL Server Data Source
Driver-specific Connection Options
A data source includes the data a user wants to access and the information needed to access that data. For the ODBC SQL Server driver, a data source is a Microsoft SQL Server database, the server on which it resides, and the network that is used to access that server.