{"id":1240,"date":"2012-06-25T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2018-04-30T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:19:30","slug":"what-is-odbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/vldb-operations\/what-is-odbc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ODBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2075 size-full\" title=\"ODBC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/databaseconnect.jpg\" alt=\"ODBC\" width=\"225\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/databaseconnect.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/databaseconnect-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ODBC, Open Database Connectivity, is an industry-standard application programming interface (API) for access to both relational and non-relational database management systems (DBMS). <a title=\"Open Database Connectivity Definition Expanded Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ODBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ODBC<\/a> was first developed by the SQL Access Group (SAG) in 1992 in response to the need to access data stored in a variety of proprietary personal computer, minicomputer, and mainframe databases without having to know their proprietary interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Today, many applications use ODBC to query a database regardless of which programming language, database system, or operating systems are in use. However, separate database drivers which contain DBMS-specific details are needed.<\/p>\n<p>ODBC has since come a long way in functional and performance terms, and covers many different enterprise databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, and Access and the same hardware platforms IRI does &#8211; Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and OS\/400.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ODBC, IRI and You<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWith the development of the ODBC process type in CoSort&#8217;s <a title=\"SortCL Product Tool Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/products\/cosort\/sortcl\">SortCL<\/a> program and subsequent spin-off products, users of IRI software will be able to address rows in tables along with records in flat files at the same time. This input- and output-level support of connected RDBMS sources and targets means that CoSort SortCL users can now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sort, aggregate, and join data in multiple tables and flat files; i.e. from multiple sources and formats<\/li>\n<li>Compare data in those disparate sources for change data capture or delta reporting operations<\/li>\n<li>Reorder or reorg database tables without separate extract and load operations*<\/li>\n<li>Generate detail and summary reports that calculate across and down the values in those tables and flat files<\/li>\n<li>Create CSV, XML or other hand-off targets for data franchising such as data marts and BI applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the GUI platform for <a title=\"CoSort 9.5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/blog\/miscellaneous\/how-cosort-transforms-and-manipulates-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoSort 9.5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/products\/workbench\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRI Workbench<\/a>, you can\u00a0browse your connected data sources via the Data Source Explorer in the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) plug-in using JDBC, define your layout and manipulation metadata to SortCL, and run jobs locally or remotely.<\/p>\n<p>ODBC support in SortCL spin-off tools means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/products\/fieldshield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FieldShield<\/a> users can encrypt, de-identify, mask, and redact personally-identifying information (PII) and other sensitive data at the column level across different databases and flat files (at the same time). <a title=\"RowGen Product Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/products\/rowgen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RowGen<\/a> users will be able to directly read table descriptions and populate test databases with generated tables that maintain the structural and referential integrity as the original tables. <a title=\"NextForm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iri.com\/products\/nextform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NextForm<\/a> users will also be able to convert data types from disparate sources for database and file format migrations.<\/p>\n<p><em>* the external reorg method with FACT, CoSort, and direct path loads is still currently faster in volume<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ODBC, Open Database Connectivity, is an industry-standard application programming interface (API) for access to both relational and non-relational database management systems (DBMS). 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