Preface : About this Book

About this Book

This book is your user’s guide and reference for the Progress DataDirect® for ODBC for Apache Spark SQLTM Wire Protocol driver.

The content of this book assumes that you are familiar with your operating system and its commands. It contains the following information:

Quick Start Connect explains the basics for quickly configuring and testing the drivers. It also provides an explanation of ODBC.

About the Apache Spark SQL Wire Protocol Driver explains the driver, supported environments and driver requirements.

Supported Features explains features supported by the driver.

Using the Driver guides you through configuring the driver. It also explains how to use the functionality supported by the driver such as failover, security, and DataDirect Connection Pooling.

Troubleshooting explains the tools to solve common problems and documents error messages.

Reference provides detailed reference information about the product.

If you are writing programs to access ODBC drivers, you need to obtain a copy of the ODBC Programmer’s Reference for the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity Software Development Kit, available from Microsoft Corporation.

For the latest information about your driver, refer to the readme file in your software package.

Note: This book refers the reader to Web pages using URLs for more information about specific topics, including Web URLs not maintained by Progress DataDirect. Because it is the nature of Web content to change frequently, Progress DataDirect can guarantee only that the URLs referenced in this book were correct at the time of publication.