implicitly-allocated-descriptors.md

title	Implicitly Allocated Descriptors | Microsoft Docs
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ms.date	01/19/2017
ms.prod	sql
ms.prod_service	connectivity
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ms.technology	connectivity
ms.topic	conceptual
helpviewer_keywords	descriptors [ODBC], allocating and freeing implicitly allocated descriptors [ODBC] allocating and freeing descriptors [ODBC]
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author	David-Engel
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Implicitly Allocated Descriptors

When a statement handle is allocated, the application implicitly allocates one set of four descriptors. The application can obtain the handles of these implicitly allocated descriptors as attributes of the statement handle. When the application frees the statement handle, the driver frees all implicitly allocated descriptors on that handle.