ODBC Desktop Database Drivers 3.5 was released in October 1996. These drivers were double-byte character set (DBCS)-enabled, were better suited for use with Internet applications than previous versions, and accommodated the use of File data source names (DSNs). The Microsoft Access driver was released in a RISC version for use on Alpha platforms.
Note The version 3.5 drivers were designed to work with ODBC 2.x. Although they also work with ODBC 3.0, they do not support all ODBC 3.0 features. For more information about how these drivers work with ODBC 3.0, see “Backward Compatibility and Standards Compliance” in Chapter 17, “Programming Considerations,” in the Microsoft ODBC 3.0 Software Development Kit and Programmer’s Reference.