Application Programming Interface

Hello everyone,
I'm new in this forum and to SAP, and I appreciate the opportunity to reach you. Here's my question:
I need to go into a SAP database and directly retrieve table information. All this from MS Access.
1. Does SAP provide an application programming interface to do all this?
2. How can I get to the API library?
3. What language is it written in?
Thanks!
Cordially,
Pablo Diaz.

Hi Pablo,
welcome to SDN.
You can't directly access the SAP Database as I think you want through any ODBC Driver. You should only access it via defined interfaces called RFC Enabled Function Modules. A special set of this RFC FM's are BAPI's which are mostly well documented and keep a consistent interface during releases.
From a Windows Environment I think the .NET Connector is the best and also supported way to access SAP. Have a look at the <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.comhttp://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/dotnet">.NET Interoperability</a> Pages here on SDN.
Regards
Gregor
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