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title: "Diagnostic Handling Examples | Microsoft Docs"
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ms.date: "01/19/2017"
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# Diagnostic Handling Examples
The following examples show how various components in an ODBC connection might generate diagnostic messages and how various drivers might return diagnostics to the application with **SQLGetDiagRec**.  
  
-   [File-Based Driver Diagnostic Example](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/file-based-driver-diagnostic-example.md)  
  
-   [DBMS-Based Driver Diagnostic Example](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/dbms-based-driver-diagnostic-example.md)  
  
-   [Gateways Diagnostic Example](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/gateways-diagnostic-example.md)  
  
-   [Driver Manager Diagnostic Example](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/driver-manager-diagnostic-example.md)