With the EXEC SQL command, developers can execute database-specific SQL statements that are not covered by the Open SQL functionality and access database tables that are not managed by the ABAP Dictionary. However, it does have some limitations, because it supports only static SQL statements, provides limited error handling capabilities, and has difficulty dealing with multiple database connections. Developed as an amendment to EXEC SQL, ABAP Database Connectivity (ADBC) is an object-based call-level API that addresses these limitations and provides Native SQL access to all of the SQL functionality of the underlying database. This article introduces you to ADBC and the scenarios to which it is best suited.