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.

In this first article of the ASPHoleTools series, you will be shown the basics for data access. Covers how to create the basic include file for database access, and testing that data access was installed properly on your machine.

Have this short program around so that you can quickly see what columns and what data are in your database. Here you will see some of the common methods and properties used to limit the results from your SQL query. Using a simple form that takes a table name and a submit button, and you can easily display increments of the table data. Full source code available.

This short tutorial explains how to to upload a text file and load it into your database using ASP. It uses a sample of the space-delimited file for an example.

You can use transactions in ASP as a kind of insurance policy for your database activities, making them safer and providing better error recovery. Transactions are most useful when doing multiple actions on multiple tables. The example below shows just how easy it is to use transactions from ASP, inserting a record into a table and doing a "rollback" if there's a problem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is an example code showing how to conduct searches on a database to display hyperlinked summaries that can be clicked on to display detail data.