The programming language Clarion was primary intended for construction of applications
which use desktop types of databases. When there was a driver of data ODBC and such
additional tools as OracleConnect, direct driver for a DBMS Informix and so on, there
was a possible creation of applications on technology client-server. If to take in attention
that by the current moment Clarion the unique environment capable to create both 32-bit
and 16-bit applications, creation of a part "CLIENT" just on technology Clarion has large
perspectives. The applications constructed on this technology have small period of
development ( much less than on Delphi or VisualBasic) , faster work and the plenties
of additional units and libraries do not require.

But in a consequence that that historically Clarion was oriented to the desktop type of
databases, there are some negative moment in implementation of data access through SQL.

For solution of a lot of these problems directODBC the class was written.

DirectODBC is the library of methods and properties of the class using direct calls ODBC API.
That allows to work as through Clarion ODBC driver and directly with ODBC.

Though DirectODBC Class allows to create applications without use Clarion database driver
and description of structures of the database in the dictionary, the best results can be
reached using both variants of data access.