Connections, Commands and Procedures is a sample chapter from Professional Active Server Pages which discuss in depth all the issues related with establishing connection to a database to the carrying out of commands and procedures.

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.

Explains everything in detail you'll ever need to know about creating Stored Procedures in Access Database and then calling from within ASP. Select, Update, Insert and Delete Stored Procedures are described. Sample code and database available for download.

This article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to create an Active Server Pages application to backup and verify a SQL Server database. The SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) extend the functionality of SQL Server by providing developers a way to execute common tasks.

MySQL is the most popular open source database system available today, and is currently installed on over two million servers worldwide. This article takes a look at using the free MyODBC driver to talk to a MySQL database from an ASP script.

Ever wondered how to create a table, view or procedure with MS Access? This article shows us how to create all three and work with them from an ASP script.

This is an overview of SYSTEM DSN's, DSN-LESS Connections, and any database permissions that may need to be set on the server. Helpful for people just learning ASP as well as people with some experience.

Here is a quick sample of searching a DB for certain records. It's really no different then doing any other query except that you need to use wildcards. In ASP / ADO the wildcard character is %. It works the way most of us have come to expect * to work. Why is it %? I have no idea, but it is. An Access 97 version of the database is available for download.

Compact and repair your access database online from ASP code. This is example code of how this can be done.

This article covers two advanced ADO topics: creating hierarchical Recordsets (via data shaping) and creating custom Recordsets. Specifically, this article looks at how to create custom hierarchical Recordsets. The reader is required to have a fluid understanding of both data shaping and custom Recordsets.