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Can anybody please define what a ha

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vasanthgnb

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Can anybody please define what a handle is. I need a theoritical definition of what the term handle refers to as far as odbc is concerned.
 
I don't know how theoretical or detailed you want, but generically a handle is a pointer to a specific logical device, be it a file, a printer port, or some other thing.

In ODBC, a handle might represent a pointer to a connection to a data provider. Think of the handle as a simple way to refer to that connection.
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