ODBC Data Sources Subkey

The values under the ODBC Data Sources subkey list the data sources. The format of these values is:

Name

Data type

Data

data-source- name

REG_SZ

driver-description

where data-source-name is defined by the administration program (which usually prompts the user for it) and driver-description is defined by the driver developer (it is usually the name of the DBMS associated with the driver).

For example, suppose three data sources have been defined: Inventory, which uses SQL Server; Payroll, which uses dBASE; and Personnel, which uses formatted text files. The values under the ODBC Data Sources subkey might be:

Inventory : REG_SZ : SQL Server

Payroll : REG_SZ : dBASE

Personnel : REG_SZ : Text