 <p>Microsoft's documentation is of limited use, once you move off Windows. Their discussion of the ODBC APIs is fine -- but anything about Visual Studio or other Windows-specific components should generally be ignored.</p> <p>iODBC.org can provide some pointers -- especially if you look into the source for iODBC Demo.app and/or iODBC Test.command, which ship with the <a href="http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/Downloads#Mac_OS_X" rel="nofollow">free and open source iODBC SDK</a>.</p> <p>You may also benefit from developing and testing with a commercially-supported ODBC driver, such as <a href="http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-sqlserver-st/" rel="nofollow">my employer's offering</a>.</p>