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The ODBC is the acronym for "Open Database Connectivity". It is a widely accepted application programming interface (API) for database access introduced by Microsoft corporation. It is based on the Call-Level Interface (CLI) specifications from X/Open and ISO/IEC for database APIs and uses Structured Query Language (SQL) as its database access language. The ODBC home page is located at http://www.microsoft.com/data/odbc/
You can find the ODBC SDK in MSDN Online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/dasdk/odbc4vcn.htm
Because of wide prevalence of ODBC almost every database has ODBC-driver. You can use the same program to access Oracle, MS SQL, Access, DB2 and other data sources. The native database API calls are much faster than ODBC calls. But it is very expensive to explore a lot of APIs and write a lot of programs. That's why ODBC Navigator accesses databases through ODBC.
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