Connections, Commands and Procedures is a sample chapter from Professional Active Server Pages which discuss in depth all the issues related with establishing connection to a database to the carrying out of commands and procedures.

This tutorial shows you step-by-step how to incorporate MS Access databases into your web site using ASP.

In order to connect to an Acees database with ASP through ODBC using a DSN file, you'll need to have full access to the server to create the DSN file, something that can be difficult if your site is hosted somewhere. This lesson will teach you an alternative connecton method, a DSN-less connection. As tests has shown, an DSN-less connection to Access gives you better performance. You can have up to 20-30 simultaneous users on the db without problems.

This is a nice simple tutorial on how to manipluate a MS Access database using ASP. It will teach you how to add, remove and modify data from an Access database as well as connecting and disconnecting to the database in ASP.

This is a tutrial about connecting an Access database with ASP pages. It focuses on connecting Access with PWS 4.0 on a Win95 machine. You can use the same procedure on Win98. It also shows you how to create a database table in Access and how to retrieve it's content and display it through ASP.

SQL, Structured Query Language, is the most powerful tool to connect to a database regardless of the form of the database. However, building a perfect SQL statement can be very frustrating. Especially debugging -- the error message simply didn't tell you where the error is. This tutorial provides a nice summary of SQL statements.

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).

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.

Many a time, you are confronted with creating a system DSN for use with ASP. If you have an ISP account, this might take time and more than sometimes - money. This article describes how to use File DSNs and save time and money. Also, you can reuse these DSNs and thus, with some modifications, use the same DSN for as many database connections.

Active Server Pages allow us an easy means of querying and updating a database from a webpage. This article describes the basics of using this technique in a nutshell. The examples given here utilize a Microsoft Access database, but the principles elucidated apply equally well to ASP integration with other databaes.