What is JDBC and ODBC and what are the differences between
them?

Answer Posted / pradeep kumar

1. ODBC is procedural oriented and JDBC is object oriented.
2. ODBC is used to provide connection between front-end
(other than JAVA) and back-end (weak database like MS-
ACCESS) and JDBC is used to provide connection between JAVA
and database(oracle,sybase,DB2).

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