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

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 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.

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 little wizard will help you count records and display the total. Simply fill in the form, and it will generate the code for you.

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.

Dropdowns or combo boxes are an excellent way to get input from a user. One of the biggest problems with user input is spelling and formatting. Here is how to use and populate dropdowns from a database.

Allowing multiple choices of data elements enables people to customize views of your data and adds value to your applications. In this sample code, user inputted choice(s) are added to the basic sql statement to draw them from the db. Since the input from the dropdown menu comes through comma delimited it is simply written into the statement without modification. Two simple for next loops determine which elements are part of the record set and displays them accordingly.