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.
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.
There are a few different ways to connect to an Access database using a DSN-LESS connection. You can use the Access driver, an OLEDB provider connection, a physical path or a virtual path. Here is an example of each as well as a DSN-LESS SQL Server connection.
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.
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.
This is the second article in this series. This article mainly deals with SQL Joins and SQL sub-queries. Both of these are extremely useful SQL constructs and should be learnt by all beginners.
Sample implementation (source code)illustrating how to implement a "Suggestion Box" style form using ASP and MS Access. Easily installed, and customized.