The unixODBC project provides Unix applicationswith the same ODBC 3.51 API and facilitiesavailable under Windows. It provides a DriverManager that supports the full ODBC API andperforms the ODBC 3 to ODBC 2 translations withUNICODE to ANSI conversion. It also includes a setof graphical utilities that allow users to specifyconnections to DBMSes to be used by applications,a collection of ODBC drivers including a simpletext based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgresdriver and others, and a selection of templatesand libraries that to aid in the construction ofODBC drivers. It works with MySQL, Postgres,StarOffice/OpenOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP,Perl DBD::ODBC, and many other applications anddrivers. Connection pooling is also provided toincrease performance with applications such as PHP.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Many bugs were fixed, but the most importantchange is to switch the default way the drivermanager builds on 64-bit platforms withsizeof(SQLLEN) equal to 8.
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