Editing Open Database Connectivity (section)

====ODBC specifications====
Source:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.easysoft.com/developer/interfaces/odbc/linux.html#odbc_versions |title=ODBC Versions |work=Linux/UNIX ODBC |publisher=Easysoft |access-date=2009-10-27 }}</ref>

*1.0: released in September 1992<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.east.utcluj.ro/mb/mep/antal/Articole/orajdbc_2004.pdf |title=Access to an Oracle database using JDBC |first=Tiberiu Alexandru |last=Antal |publisher=Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |location=Cluj-Napoca |page=2 |access-date=2009-10-27 |quote=ODBC 1.0 was released in September 1992 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722071727/http://www.east.utcluj.ro/mb/mep/antal/Articole/orajdbc_2004.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2.0: {{circa}} 1994
*2.5
*3.0: {{circa}} 1995, John Goodson of Intersolv and Frank Pellow and Paul Cotton of IBM provided significant input to ODBC 3.0<ref>Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft ODBC 3.0 Programmer's Reference and SDK Guide, Volume 1. Microsoft Press. February 1997. ({{ISBN|9781572315167}})</ref>
*3.5: {{circa}} 1997
*3.8: {{circa}} 2009, with Windows 7<ref name="What's New in ODBC 3.8">{{cite web |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee388580%28VS.85%29.aspx |title=What's New in ODBC 3.8 |publisher=Microsoft |access-date=2010-01-13 |quote=Windows 7 includes an updated version of ODBC, ODBC 3.8. }}</ref>
*4.0: Development announced June 2016<ref name="MSDA blog 2016-06-07">{{cite web |url=https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dataaccesstechnologies/2016/06/07/a-new-release-of-odbc-for-modern-data-stores/ |title=A new release of ODBC for Modern Data Stores |last=Rukmangathan |first=Krishnakumar |work=Microsoft Data Access / SQL BI Technologies Blog |publisher=Microsoft |date=2016-06-07 |access-date=2017-01-03 |quote=After more than 15 years since the last release, Microsoft is looking at updating the Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) specification. }}</ref> with first implementation with SQL Server 2017 released Sep 2017 and additional desktop drivers late 2018 [https://github.com/Microsoft/ODBC-Specification final spec on Github]