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BDE connects to the SQL server database by using the following guidelines:

•BDE uses the server authorization scheme. The password is used in DbiOpenDatabase to connect to the server.

•Most BDE features require an open database, with the exception of retrieving driver capabilities, such as data-types information.

•Transactions and passthrough operations are done in the database context.