ODBC Handles

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

When an application requests it, the Driver Manager and each driver allocate memory storage for information about the ODBC environment, each connection, and each SQL statement. The handles to these storage areas are returned to the application, which then uses one or more of them in each ODBC function call.

The ODBC interface defines three types of handles:

See Also

Connecting to a Data Source

Multi-threading Issues in the Adapter and Client Applications

ODBC Adapter Synchronous and Asynchronous Operation

SQL Select Handling