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