Consequently, even though this technology is outdated, many developers
still use it because ODBC is very reliable, available on just about any Windows system, and well
understood. The following sections describe two ODBC command line topics.
NOTE This discussion shows how to configure ODBC sources at the command line. It doesn??™t
demonstrate how to create database applications based on those sources, nor does it tell you
how to create a data source for a specific vendor product. Refer to a programming manual for
your language of choice to discover how to work with ODBC data sources in an application.
Your database product manual should contain information about how to configure the database
for use with ODBC.
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Configuring the ODBC Environment with the ODBCConf Utility
The ODBCConf utility helps you configure ODBC at the command line, rather than using the ODBC
Data Source Administrator utility available in the Administrative Tools folder of the Control Panel??”
listed as the Data Sources (ODBC) console. You can use this utility to configure new data sources,
check data source status, and perform other tasks on a remote machine from the command line.
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