+ Nothing but a noncommittal declaration of intent ;)

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+%&latex -*- latex -*-
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+\chapter{Open Database Base Connectivity Interface (ODBC)}
+
+ODBC is an standarized API for talking to database drivers, thus
+enabling your application to use any ODBC compliant database driver to
+connect to SQL databases.  The Scheme Shell provides access to almost
+all functions and data structures of ODBC.
+
+The ODBC API was designed by Microsoft Corporation and has been
+updated several times.  At the time of writing, ODBC API version 3.5
+was current.  However, the scsh also provides access to all functions
+needed to use an ODBC driver manager starting from version 1.0.  
+
+\section{ODBC Overview}
+
+An ODBC setup consists of several components which arrange around a so
+called ODBC driver manager.  The driver manager provides an abstract
+implementation of the ODBC API for accessing databases.  The concrete
+implementation, which contains e.g. contains the code to connect to a
+certain SQL database depends on the database to access.  Therefore,
+this codes resides in a ODBC driver, which is usually part of the SQL
+database distribution.  In some cases ODBC driver managers bring along
+their own drivers.
+
+The \textit{Data Source Name}, DSN for short, associates credentials
+needed to logon a certain database with a the apropriate driver to
+access that database.  If an application wishes to connect to a DSN
+the driver manager loads the ##angegeben## driver and routes all
+functions call by the application via this driver to the database.
+
+The are at least two implementation of ODBC driver managers for UNIX
+systems: unixODBC~\cite{BlaBla} and iODBC~\cite{BlaBla}. The Scheme
+shell can use both ODBC driver managers.  However, you have to decide
+during compilation of scsh which one to use.
+
+Support for ODBC at this time is quite low-level---for alsmost each
+function or data structure in the ODBC API there is a function call in
+Scheme.  This chapter describes how to call the API functions from
+Scheme, but does not cover the ##funktionsweise## of the underlying
+ODBC function call in detail.  Microsoft's ODBC API reference
+manual~\cite{BlaBla} explains all API functions in great detail.
+
+\section{ODBC Data Types}
+
+%%% handles
+
+\section{ODBC functions and constants}
+
+
+\section{Error handling}
+
+\section{Restrictions}
+
+