1.2.4 The <CONNECTION> class

The <connection> class represents a database connection. More formally, we can say that it identifies a context in which a client application can execute SQL statements. The exact composition of a connection depends on the DBMS and the client platform. Implementation libraries like SQL-ODBC define a subclass of <connection> that implements the necessary requirements to identify the execution context to the client application.

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