ODBC provides bookmarks, which are values used to identify rows in a cursor. SQL Anywhere supports bookmarks for value-sensitive and insensitive cursors. For example, this means that the ODBC cursor types SQL_CURSOR_STATIC and SQL_CURSOR_KEYSET_DRIVEN support bookmarks while cursor types SQL_CURSOR_DYNAMIC and SQL_CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY do not.

Before ODBC 3.0, a database could specify only whether it supported bookmarks or not: there was no interface to provide this information for each cursor type. There was no way for a database server to indicate for what kind of cursor bookmarks were supported. For ODBC 2 applications, SQL Anywhere returns that it does support bookmarks. There is therefore nothing to prevent you from trying to use bookmarks with dynamic cursors; however, you should not use this combination.