This article will help you to create a System Data Source Name (DSN) for Microsoft SQL Server on your local machine. After a System DSN has been created you can use it within any ASP page located on the same computer.
ODBC is great and all but for speed and reliability you should switch to OLE DB to power your database driven apps. This tutorial will show you how to do it two ways: in the global.asa and in any ASP page.
This is a set of ASP examples/tutorials that demonstrate exactly how to use ASP with a database. Topics include: Using ADO To Add A New Record, Using ADO To Update An Existing Record, Using An Update Query To Modify An Existing Record, Using Delete Statement to Delete Records, Using A Select Statement (With A Loop), and ACCESS DATABASES ( DSN vs DSN-LESS).
Outputting data from two tables is almost as easy as displaying from one. This example utilizes two
tables with state information on them. The first table (state_order) contains state abbreviations (state), state names (statename) the year each state was admitted into the union (year) and the numeric order they entered in (entered). The second table (state_capitals) contains state abbreviations (
Providing search capabilities to a db enables users to query on whichever element you target them to. However allowing users to target which portion of the db they would like to query gives extra value. In this example, utilizing our db of US States (state, statename, and capital) the user can search in any of three fields (by dropdown menu input) rather than the application targeting one specific
This is a brief and very useful tutorial on creating and using stored procedures with your asp applications. A stored procedure is nothing more than an sql statement stored inside a database. The database can be SQL Server or MS Access as well as others. A stored procedure is compiled by your database (for the most part) one time, when it is entered. This results in faster database executions and
This article by James Shaw demonstrates how to dynamically add properties to an object (expando properties) - by implementing a function to create named recordsets.
