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title: "Introduction to ODBC | Microsoft Docs"
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ms.date: "01/19/2017"
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# Introduction to ODBC
This section provides a brief history of Structured Query Language and ODBC, and includes conceptual information about the ODBC interface.  
  
 This section contains the following topics:  
  
-   [ODBC Overview](../../odbc/reference/odbc-overview.md)  
  
-   [Introduction to SQL and ODBC](../../odbc/reference/introduction-to-sql-and-odbc.md)  
  
-   [ODBC Architecture](../../odbc/reference/odbc-architecture.md)  
  
-   [ODBC 64-Bit Information](../../odbc/reference/odbc-64-bit-information.md)