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.
Displaying specific subsets of data from a database is easy to accomplish in .asp. The following example utilizes an Access database of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych and displays all of his season statistics for 1976 contained in the database rather than displaying the entire db.
This page demonstrates the capabilities how to display a table from a SQL statement. It illustrates not only how to display the table, but also how to detect that no records
were returned from a query, and how to detect null and blank values in the data.
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.
You fill in the blanks, and you are given the source code for the form, and a page to display the information in the database. Also the database is ready to download with all fields in your form.
To database or not to database? Test of consumed resources (processor, memory) and results with file upload to database or file system. Test of JetOLEB connection to MDB, test of MSSQL 2000 and AppendChunk method and UPDATE text SQL command.
This article shows how to insert records to a database, when the number of records that need to be inserted is unknown. A must read for ASP/ADO programmers.
A step by step tutorial on caching data in memory. This tutorial goes one step further from simply caching data in memory to allow you to set a time limit in seconds after which it refreshes the data in memory. Extremely useful technique. Online demo available.