Preface : Using this Book

Using this Book
The content of this book assumes that you are familiar with your operating system and its commands. It contains the following information:
Quick Start Connect explains the basics for quickly configuring and testing the drivers.
Using The Product explains the drivers and ODBC, and discusses environment-specific subjects.
Advanced Features explains at a general level advanced driver features such as failover, security, connection pooling, and bulk load.
Configuring the Product on UNIX/Linux discusses UNIX and Linux environment variables and configuration of the drivers. It also provides a sample system information file, as well as discussing other driver tools for UNIX and Linux.
If you are writing programs to access ODBC drivers, you need to obtain a copy of the ODBC Programmer’s Reference for the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity Software Development Kit, available from Microsoft Corporation.
For the latest information about the specific drivers available for your platform, refer to the readme file in your software package.
Database drivers are continually being added to each operating environment. For the latest information about the specific drivers available for your platform, refer to the readme file in your software package or refer to the Progress DataDirect database support matrix Web pages at:
http://www.datadirect.com/products/odbc/matrix/connectodbc.htm (32-bit)
http://www.datadirect.com/products/odbc64/matrix/connect64odbc.htm (64-bit)
This book refers the reader to Web pages using URLs for more information about specific topics, including Web URLs not maintained by Progress DataDirect. Because it is the nature of Web content to change frequently, Progress DataDirect can guarantee only that the URLs referenced in this book were correct at the time of publication.

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