Article describes what is SQL? what it is used for? how to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE records from the database? and more.

If you have an SQL database set up with your web host, a useful tip to know is how to connect to your SQL database via Enterprise Manager. The advantage of knowing how to do this is that you will be able to manage your SQL Server database via Enterprise Manager over TCP/IP, yourself.

This article wraps up the details of the real time data grid that started in part one of this two-part article. It looks at the JavaScript code that contacts our database server and allows us to update data in a database without actually refreshing the page.

The part one of this two-part article shows how to create an ASP class that allows us to work with our databases through a web browser. It will allow us to update and delete records dynamically using JavaScript and XMLHTTP, without ever having to refresh the page.

Compact and repair your access database online from ASP code. This is example code of how this can be done.

MySQL is the most popular open source database system available today, and is currently installed on over two million servers worldwide. This article takes a look at using the free MyODBC driver to talk to a MySQL database from an ASP script.

This article will show you two different methods that you can use to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database: System DSN's and the OLEDB connection string. It will also explain the positives and negatives of each method, along with some examples to get you started.

This is the first of the four-part "Advanced SQL Techniques" series, which describes a quick and efficient way to delete duplicate records from a table.

This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server triggers to automatically record all updates and inserts for a particular database table in a customized history table.

This article describes several ways to use a SQL calculated field and the ORDER BY clause to arrange a recordset in random order. It provides a simple tool for verifying that the results are uniformly random. Also shows a technique for bubbling records with certain attributes to the top of an otherwise randomized list.