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Linkage of databases to Web has both increased functionality of web and made databases much easier to use
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All the database vendors agreed on a common interface allowing one to write portable database access code
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JDBC provides a set of classes for Java with a standard SQL database access interface.
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Provides an API for database "drivers" to make actual connections and transactions to database products.
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includes JDBC-ODBC bridge to standard ODBC drivers, a common interface for relational databases from C
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JDBC is "low-level" interface, calling SQL commands directly but is meant to be a base for higher-level interfaces.
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