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title: "Limitations | Microsoft Docs"
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# Limitations
This section describes limitations of the ODBC Desktop Database Drivers with regard to the following topics:  
  
|Functions|Statements|Clauses, types, and so on|  
|---------------|----------------|-------------------------------|  
|[Aggregate Function](../../odbc/microsoft/aggregate-function-limitations.md)|[ALTER TABLE Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/alter-table-statement-limitations.md)|[Column Name](../../odbc/microsoft/column-name-limitations.md)|  
|[Scalar Function](../../odbc/microsoft/scalar-function-limitations.md)|[CALL Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/call-statement-limitations.md)|[Data Type](../../odbc/microsoft/data-type-limitations.md)|  
|[Set Functions](../../odbc/microsoft/set-functions-limitations.md)|[CREATE INDEX Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/create-index-statement-limitations.md)|[Date Arithmetic](../../odbc/microsoft/date-arithmetic-limitations.md)|  
|[Sorting](../../odbc/microsoft/sorting-limitations.md)|[CREATE TABLE Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/create-table-statement-limitations.md)|[Identifiers](../../odbc/microsoft/identifiers-limitations.md)|  
|[CONVERT Function](../../odbc/microsoft/convert-function-limitations.md)|[DELETE Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/delete-statement-limitations.md)|[Index Name](../../odbc/microsoft/index-name-limitations.md)|  
||[DROP INDEX Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/drop-index-statement-limitations.md)|[Parameterized Query](../../odbc/microsoft/parameterized-query-limitations.md)|  
||[DROP TABLE Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/drop-table-statement-limitations.md)|[Reserved Words](../../odbc/microsoft/reserved-word-limitations.md)|  
||[INSERT Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/insert-statement-limitations.md)|[AND Predicate](../../odbc/microsoft/and-predicate-limitations.md)|  
||[SELECT DISTINCT Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/select-distinct-limitations.md)|[DISTINCT Keyword](../../odbc/microsoft/distinct-keyword-limitations.md)|  
||[SELECT Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/select-statement-limitations.md)|[FROM Clause](../../odbc/microsoft/from-clause-limitations.md)|  
||[UPDATE Statement](../../odbc/microsoft/update-statement-limitations.md)|[HAVING Clause](../../odbc/microsoft/having-clause-limitations.md)|  
|||[LIKE Predicate](../../odbc/microsoft/like-predicate-limitations.md)|  
|||[NOT NULL](../../odbc/microsoft/not-null-limitations.md)|  
|||[ORDER BY Clause](../../odbc/microsoft/order-by-clause-limitations.md)|  
|||[Table Name](../../odbc/microsoft/table-name-limitations.md)|  
|||[Table References](../../odbc/microsoft/table-references-limitations.md)|  
|||[Views](../../odbc/microsoft/views-limitations.md)|  
|||[WHERE Clause](../../odbc/microsoft/where-clause-limitations.md)|  
|||[WHERE CURRENT OF Clause](../../odbc/microsoft/where-current-of-clause-limitations.md)|  
|||[String](../../odbc/microsoft/string-limitations.md)|