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.
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.
Allowing multiple choices of data observations enables people to customize views of your data and adds value to your applications. This example utilizes our db on the career statistics of Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg. The years he played are available to select from in a dropdown menu. When multiple years are selected they are passed comma delimited. Utilizing the where in statement in our sql the comma delimited selections are appended to our sql statement to display only those years selected.
Sample implementation (source code)illustrating how to implement a "Suggestion Box" style form using ASP and MS Access. Easily installed, and customized.
You can connect to an Access database within an ASP page with different methods. This article will help you to create a System Data Source Name (DSN) for an Access database on your local machine.
This article shows how to generate random records from the database. Also explains how to generate random numbers. Sample Database and Code available for download.
This article by James Shaw demonstrates how to dynamically add properties to an object (expando properties) - by implementing a function to create named recordsets.