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For details about this release on Windows, see the Windows release notes. ODBC 3. Applications call the functions in these drivers to access data in a DBMS-independent manner. A Driver Manager manages communication between applications and drivers. In fact, the vast majority of ODBC applications and drivers available today are written by companies other than Microsoft.

It is important to understand that ODBC is designed to expose database capabilities, not supplement them. Thus, application writers should not expect that using ODBC will suddenly transform a simple database into a fully featured relational database engine.

Nor are driver writers expected to implement functionality not found in the underlying database. An exception to this is that developers who write drivers that directly access file data such as data in an Xbase file are required to write a database engine that supports at least minimal SQL functionality. Because they are written primarily to demonstrate ODBC principles, efficiency has sometimes been set aside in the interest of clarity.

In addition, whole sections of code have sometimes been omitted for clarity. Emerson, Sandra L. Melton, Jim, and Simon, Alan R. Trimble, J. Harvey, Jr. Gray, J. Stegman, Michael O.