Inc. Open systems provide a standard to write applications to which is portable to multiple systems.
Portability is the key.
In prior relational systems, Embedded SQL was the only semi-portable interface. At the same time, ODBC provides a powerful set of facilities for controlling and utilizing databases. This paper examines the issues of ODBC as an open system. It concludes with a look at the future of ODBC and the dark clouds that are threatening the standard. Embedded SQL uses a language specific Precompiler.