Glossary of terms used in Adaptive Server ODBC Driver.
- Adaptive Server® Enterprise – a high-performance relational database management system for mission-critical,
data-intensive environments. It ensures highest operational efficiency and throughput
on a broad range of platforms.
- American National Standards Institution (ANSI) code – a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the ANSI to ensure uniform
identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies.
- compiler – a compiler is a program that translates a source program written in some high-level programming
language into machine code.
- connection string – a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it.
- cursor – a cursor is a data selector that passes multiple rows of data to the host program, one row at a
time. The cursor indicates the first row, also called the current row of data and
passes it to the host program.
- data source name (DSN) – a data structure that contains information about a specific database that an Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC) driver needs to connect to.
- descriptor – a collection of metadata that describes the parameters of a SQL statement or the columns of a
result set, as seen by the application or driver.
- directory service URL (DSURL) – a property called DSURL that indicates which LDAP server to use.
- distributed transaction protocol –
- graphical user interface (GUI) – a program interface that makes use of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program
easier to use.
- ISO 8859-1 – part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings. It is informally
referred to as Latin-1.
- Kerberos authentication – a mechanism for authentication and mutual authentication between a client and a server, or
between one server and another server.
- LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An application protocol for accessing and maintaining
distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP)
network.
- Mainframe Connect Direct Connect – supplies the connectivity tools that allows full integration of mainframe and LAN-based data
sources.
- Microsoft distributed transaction coordinator (MS DTC) – a component that coordinates transactions, which span multiple resource managers, such as
databases, message queues, and file systems.
- ODBC – Open Database Connectivity. An open standard application programming interface
(API) used for accessing a database.
- ODBC Driver Manager – the component that manages the communications between user applications and ODBC Drivers.
- Powerbuilder – a popular rapid application development (RAD) tool for building object-oriented client/server
applications, the parts of which can be distributedwithin a network.
- protocol data units (PDU) – packages used for communication between clients and servers.
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) – SSL and TLS are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the
Internet.
- Sybase EA Server – the leading solution for distributed and Web-enabled PowerBuilder application that leverages a
new modular architecture to support custom deployments.
- Sybase iAnywhere – a software entity specializing in mobility (mobile computing), management, security and
enterprise caliber database software.
- Sybase Software Development Kit (SDK) – the SDK provides a programming interface that allows transparent access to any data source,
information application, or system services.
- unicode – a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of
text.