When you create scripts for a PowerBuilder application, you can use embedded SQL statements in the script to perform operations on the database. The features supported when you use embedded SQL depend on the DBMS to which your application connects.
When you use the ODBC interface to connect to a backend database, you can use embedded SQL in your scripts.
You can embed the following types of SQL statements in scripts and user-defined functions if the ODBC driver you are using and the backend DBMS you are accessing supports this functionality. (Not all backend databases support cursor statements and database stored procedures.)
Transaction management statements
Non-cursor statements
Cursor statements
Database stored procedures
The ODBC interface uses the ODBC application programming interface (API) to interact with the backend database.
When you use embedded SQL, PowerBuilder makes the required calls to the backend database. Therefore, you do not need to know anything about the ODBC API to use embedded SQL with PowerBuilder.
