call-level interface

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call-level interface - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Call-Level Interface
  
     <database, standard> (SQL/CLI) A programming interface
     designed to support SQL access to databases from
     shrink-wrapped application programs.
  
     CLI was originally created by a subcommittee of the SQL Access Group
      (SAG).  The SAG/CLI specification was published
     as the Microsoft Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC)
     specification in 1992.  In 1993, SAG submitted the CLI to the
     ANSI and ISO SQL committees.
  
     SQL/CLI provides an international standard
     implementation-independent CLI to access SQL databases.
     Client-server tools can easily access databases through
     dynamic link libraries.  It supports and encourages a rich
     set of client-server tools.
  
     SQL/CLI is an addendum to 1992 SQL standard (SQL-92).  It was
     completed as ISO standard ISO/IEC 9075-3:1995 Information
     technology -- Database languages -- SQL -- Part 3: Call-Level
     Interface (SQL/CLI).  The current SQL/CLI effort is adding
     support for SQL3.
  
     (http://jcc.com/sql_cli.html).
  
     (1996-10-27)