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<TD colspan="3">Welcome to a short tutorial on ODBC programming. The goal of this tutorial is
to introduce a C-Programmer to ODBC programming. During this tutorial we will
code a simple program which connects to a database via ODBC and reads some data.
There won't be any information on how to program ODBC Drivers or about <EM>unixODBC</EM>
internals. Configuration won't be covered too.
The program developed throughout this tutorial was originally coded under WinNT
and later ported without any adjustments to Linux and <EM>unixODBC</EM>. This is
how compatibility should work :)
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The information given within this tutorial are brief at best. Please
take it as a pointer where and how to start.
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<TD width="73%">I assume that you have</TD>
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<LI>a system with unixODBC installed and with at least one
working datasource configured.
<LI>the include files installed under <CODE>/usr/include/odbc</CODE>
<LI>a compiler installed and that you know how to use it ;)
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<TD>If gcc is installed type:</TD>
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<TD><CODE>gcc odbc.c -o odbc -lodbc</CODE><BR>
which will result in an executable named "odbc".
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<TR><TD class="head"><A nAME="tab">Database</A></TD>
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<TD>Our database will have a single table:</TD>
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<TH colspan=2 class="head">tkeyuser</TH>
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<TD>iduser</TD>
<TD>sequence</TD>
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<TD>dtname</TD>
<TD>char(40)</TD>
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<TD>dtmaxSize</TD>
<TD>Integer</TD>
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Our datasource will be named "web" and access is
granted to the user "christa" with no password.
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