Guides
General Concepts
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| **Handle name** |[Statement](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/odbc/reference/develop-app/statement-handles?view=sql-server-ver16)
| **Type name** | `SQL_HANDLE_STMT`
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| **Description** |Handles the execution of SQL statements, as well as the returned result sets.
| **Use case** | Executing SQL queries, fetching result sets, managing statement options.
| **Additional information** | To facilitate the execution of concurrent queries, multiple handles can be [allocated](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/odbc/reference/develop-app/allocating-a-statement-handle-odbc?view=sql-server-ver16) per connection.