Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver User's Guide - Preface

About this manual

This manual is intended for use by anyone who wants to install the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver, configure it, and then access SQL Server data sources from an ODBC-enabled application.

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The Unix-based sections require experience of using Unix shell commands. You need to be able to do basic tasks such as editing text files. More complex tasks are described in detail, but it helps to understand how your system handles dynamic linking of shared objects.

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Contents

Introduces the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver.

Explains how to install the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver.

Explains how to configure the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver.

Technical Reference and Glossary.

Trademarks

Throughout this manual, Windows refers generically to Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 2012 R2, 10, 2016, 2019 or 2022, which are trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation.

SQL Server is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. SQL Azure is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.

Note also that although the name UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group, the term has come to encompass a whole range of UNIX-like operating systems, including the free, public Linux and even the proprietary Solaris. Easysoft use Unix (note the case) as a general term covering the wide range of Open and proprietary operating systems commonly understood to be Unix `flavors'.

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