The Microsoft ODBC Desktop Database Drivers are a Microsoft Jet-based set of ODBC drivers. With the Microsoft ODBC Desktop Database Drivers, a user of an ODBC-enabled application can open, query, and update a desktop database through the ODBC interface. You can access a wide variety of database management systems (DBMSs) with the same ODBC source code that is directly incorporated into an application's source code.
ODBC is an API that uses Structured Query Language (SQL) as the database access language.