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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2002</year><year>2009</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+ Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+ retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+
+ Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+ basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+ the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <prepared>Ingela Anderton</prepared>
+ <responsible></responsible>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <approved></approved>
+ <checked></checked>
+ <date>2002-09-17</date>
+ <rev>A</rev>
+ <file>introduction.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Purpose</title>
+ <p>The purpose of the Erlang ODBC application is to provide the
+ programmer with an ODBC interface that has a Erlang/OTP touch and
+ feel. So that the programmer may concentrate on solving his/her
+ actual problem instead of struggling with pointers and memory
+ allocation which is not very relevant for Erlang. This user guide
+ will give you some information about technical issues and provide
+ some examples of how to use the Erlang ODBC interface.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Prerequisites</title>
+ <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang
+ programming language, concepts of OTP and has a basic
+ understanding of relational databases and SQL.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>About ODBC</title>
+ <p>Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a Microsoft standard for
+ accessing relational databases that has become widely used. The
+ ODBC standard provides a c-level application programming
+ interface (API) for database access. It uses Structured Query
+ Language (SQL) as its database access language.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>About the Erlang ODBC application</title>
+ <p>Provides an Erlang interface to communicate with relational
+ SQL-databases. It is built on top of Microsofts ODBC interface and
+ therefore requires that you have an ODBC driver to the database
+ that you want to connect to. The Erlang ODBC application is designed
+ using the version 3.0 of the ODBC-standard, however using the option
+ <c>{scrollable_cursors, off} </c> for a connection has been known
+ to make it work for at least some 2.X drivers.</p>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+
+