When considering application interaction, an example of programmatic access can be best defined as what?

A$.$A software application that can interact with a database either using SQL commands or using SQL commands stored as procedures in the database.

B$.$Administrators might use an administrative tool, such as phpMyAdmin, to connect and sign in to an RDBMS

C$.$An application might use a database $"$in the background" without the user really being aware of its presence.

D$.$Providing a GUI for users to select actions to perform on the database, which then converts those selections to the SQL statements that will be executed.