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title Database Access Architecture
description Database Access Architecture
author David-Engel
ms.author davidengel
ms.date 01/19/2017
ms.service sql
ms.subservice connectivity
ms.topic conceptual
helpviewer_keywords
ODBC [ODBC], database access
standardizing database access [ODBC], about standardizing
SQL [ODBC], database access
database access [ODBC]
standardizing database access [ODBC]

Database Access Architecture

One of the questions in the development of ODBC was which part of the database access architecture to standardize. The SQL programming interfaces described in the previous section - embedded SQL, SQL modules, and CLIs - are only one part of this architecture. In fact, because ODBC was primarily intended to connect personal computer-based applications to minicomputer and mainframe DBMSs, there were also a number of network components, some of which could be standardized.

This section contains the following topics.