Administration Program

An administration program, the ODBC Administrator, is shipped with the Data Access SDK and can be redistributed by users of the SDK. In addition, developers can write their own administration programs. Generally, developers write their own administration programs only if they want to retain complete control over data source configuration, or if they are configuring data sources directly from an application that is acting as an administration program. For example, a spreadsheet program might allow users to add and then use data sources at run time.

The administration program first loads the installer DLL. It then calls functions in the installer DLL to perform the following tasks: