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{{short description|Open-source project implementing ODBC API}}
{{lowercase title|title=unixODBC}}
{{Infobox software
| name = unixODBC
| logo =
| caption =
| developer = Peter Harvey, Nick Gorham
| released = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| latest_release_version = 2.3.14
| latest release date = 7 October 2025
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date =
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = Data Access API
| license = [[GNU GPL]]/[[GNU LGPL|LGPL]]
| website = [http://www.unixODBC.org www.unixODBC.org]
}}
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
'''unixODBC''' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] project that implements the Open Database Connectivity ([[ODBC]]) [[API]].<ref>{{cite web |title=unixODBC - An ODBC implementation for Unix |url=https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man7/unixODBC.7.html |website=ubuntu.com |access-date=February 14, 2024}}</ref> The code is provided under the [[GNU GPL]]/[[GNU LGPL|LGPL]] and can be built and used on many different operating systems, including most versions of [[Unix]], [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], IBM [[OS/2]] and Microsoft's [[Interix]].

The goals of the project include:
*Provide developers with the tools to port [[Microsoft Windows]] ODBC applications to other platforms with the minimum of code changes.
*Maintain the project as a vendor neutral interface database [[Software development kit|SDK]]
*Provide people who write ODBC drivers the tools to port their drivers to non Windows platforms
*Provide the user with a set of GUI and command line tools for managing their database access
*Maintain links with both the [[free software community]] and commercial database vendors, to ensure interoperability

==History==

=== 1999 ===

The unixODBC project was first started in the early months of 1999 (by Peter Harvey) and was created as at that time the developers of [[iODBC]] (another open source [[ODBC]] implementation) were not then willing to LGPL the code, expand the API to include the current ODBC 3 API specification, and did not consider the addition of GUI based configuration tools worthwhile. iODBC now has these parts added, and applications that use the ODBC interface may use both iODBC and unixODBC, without change in most cases, as a result of both projects adhering to the single ODBC specification.

=== 1999 July ===

The original driver manager was very basic. The driver manager was rewritten by [http://www.easysoft.com Easysoft's] Nick Gorham soon after the project started. Nick assumed leadership of the project in July 1999 with Peter Harvey continuing work on supporting code.

The development of unixODBC progressed since its origin, with contributions from many developers, both in the open source community and also from commercial database companies, including [[IBM]], [[Oracle Corporation]] and [[SAP AG|SAP]].

It is included as part of the standard installation of many Linux distributions.

=== 2009 ===

The unixODBC project was split into several projects (all hosted on SourceForge);
* [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC] ("Core" and "Dev" bits)
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/unixodbc-gui-qt unixODBC-GUI-Qt] (Qt based GUI bits)
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/unixodbc-test unixODBC-Test] (multiple test frameworks)

This split was done to allow faster releases of supporting work while maintaining focus on stability and consistency for the core code.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.unixODBC.org unixODBC homepage]
* [http://compscinotes.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/unixodbc-mysql-sample-program/ UnixODBC & MySQL Sample Program ]

[[Category:Database APIs]]
[[Category:SQL data access]]

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