System.Data.Odbc 8.0.0

About

This package implements a data provider for ODBC data sources.

Key Features

Allows access to ODBC data sources.

How to Use

This is a basic example of retrieving the results of a query using an OdbcDataReader. For examples of using an OdbcDataAdapter, and of updating an ODBC data source, please see the documentation.

using System.Data.Odbc;

string connectionString = "";
string queryString = "SELECT DISTINCT CustomerID FROM Orders";

using OdbcConnection connection = new OdbcConnection(connectionString);
using OdbcCommand command = new OdbcCommand(queryString, connection);

connection.Open();
using OdbcDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();

while (reader.Read())
{
    Console.WriteLine("CustomerID={0}", reader[0]);
}

Main Types

• OdbcConnection represents a connection to an ODBC data source.
• OdbcCommand represents an SQL statement or stored procedure to execute against an ODBC data source..
• OdbcDataReader provides a way of reading a forward-only stream of data rows from an ODBC data source.
• OdbcDataAdapter represents a set of data commands and a database connection that are used to fill a DataSet and update the ODBC data source.

Additional Documentation

• API documentation

Related Packages

System.Data.OleDb is a similar package for accessing OLE DB data sources.

Feedback & Contributing

System.Data.Odbc is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports are welcome at the GitHub repository. This package is considered complete and we only consider low-risk, high-impact fixes that are necessary to maintain or improve quality.