obtaining-descriptor-handles.md

title	Obtaining Descriptor Handles | 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], retrieving or setting field values
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author	David-Engel
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Obtaining Descriptor Handles

An application obtains the handle of any explicitly allocated descriptor as an output argument of the call to SQLAllocHandle. The handle of an implicitly allocated descriptor is obtained by calling SQLGetStmtAttr.