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title: "dBASE Driver Programming Considerations | Microsoft Docs"
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# dBASE Driver Programming Considerations
This section contains the following topics.  
  
-   [Setting Options Programmatically for the dBASE Driver](../../odbc/microsoft/setting-options-programmatically-for-the-dbase-driver.md)  
  
-   [dBASE Data Types](../../odbc/microsoft/dbase-data-types.md)  
  
-   [SQLGetInfo Returned Values for dBASE](../../odbc/microsoft/sqlgetinfo-returned-values-for-dbase.md)  
  
-   [Other dBASE Driver Programming Details](../../odbc/microsoft/other-dbase-driver-programming-details.md)  
  
> [!NOTE]  
>  Accessing dBASE ISAM files through the ODBC Desktop Database Drivers requires installation of the Borland database engine.