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ODBC Driver Key Features

Performance	Wire protocol architecture Easy driver tuning via Performance Tuning Wizard Bulk Load Pooling and managing connections Data conversion Socket management Network wire management Batching and throughput optimization
Security	OS authentication (aka Single Sign-On) via Kerberos TLS / SSL data encryption
Enterprise Application Functionality	Application failover Load balancing Built-in debugging capabilities Enterprise-quality driver logging Most widely-used ODBC Driver Manager for Unix/Linux Unicode and ANSI character sets Interoperability between databases and different versions of each database
Comprehensive Database / Platform Coverage	Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Teradata, MySQL, Greenplum, PostgreSQL, Salesforce and others Unix / Linux and Windows 7 Support 64 bit ODBC drivers available
Driver Functionality	Advanced data types such as BLOB, CLOB, XML, NCHAR, etc. Consistently supports the latest ODBC specification and database features
Quality and Reliability	Quality tested and certified with the largest, most mature ODBC testing infrastructure in existence
Technical Support	Award-winning support is focused exclusively on data connectivity, offering 24x7 phone, web, email, and an extensive knowledgebase

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Progress DataDirect delivers companies with high sql server performance, standards-based data connectivity solutions that will prevent a database connect error and provide access to all major relational databases. DataDirect's driver JDBC ODBC software products include an Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver, Microsoft SQL Server ODBC driver, driver Informix ODBC, and 64-bit ODBC. DataDirect also offers solutions that provide flexible, secure ADO.NET Oracle access, as well as a Data Integration Suite that provides efficient EDI conversion capability. DataDirect offers information on Oracle JDBC and ODBC Download and oracle bulk insert to improve Oracle performance. For cloud connectivity support, DataDirects drivers simplify the development and deployment associated with connectivity to data sources such as cloud Oracle and Cloud Salesforce.