By Jon Waterhouse

Summary: One of the drivers that comes with Clarion is the ODBC driver. Although Clarion deals with most of the problems of translating your file access code (e.g. OPEN, CLOSE, NEXT) into calls to the particular ODBC driver that looks after your data file, there is one area where Clarion ignores a potentially useful set of features of the ODBC design. These are the administration functions, which are required before you can access any data source through ODBC.

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