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.

This article explains a solution on how to increase the performance of your ASP pages that rely on gathering data through several different Recordsets. Specially, using a nifty feature of the ADO Recordset object, Multiple Recordsets, you can store multiple SQL query results in one Recordset object, requiring fewer communications with the database.

This is a group of 3 tutorials that guide you through the process of using an MS Access Database in ASP. The tutorials teach you how to connect to a database, add data to the database, update the database, and delete from the database. The 3 tutorials togather allow you to build a simple Guestbook for your web site.

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 article covers rarely discussed feature of ADO Recordsets, disconnected Recordsets. It examines what disconnected Recordsets are, how to use them, and what advantages they offer over connected Recordsets. Also examines how to create custom, disconnected Recordsets.

The author writes "Recently I was asked to develop a web based report that would collect data from a database, format it in an HTML page and then print a certain number of rows on each page with a column header on each page. This solution solves the problem." Source code available for download.

This article describes how to use the refresh method of the ADO Parameters collection to interrogate a stored procedure. It shows how to create the code in an automated fashion for use in VBScript connecting to MS SQL Server 7.