Accessing Data with ASP

ASP offers the Web developer flexible, easy-to-use, scalable methods to interact with OLE DB database providers for Internet or intranet applications. Using ASP and the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) not only means that you can initially develop a solution using Microsoft Access and scale up to Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, but that you can access any other databases that have OLE DB providers. With the additional power of Component Services, you can create highly scalable multi-tier applications that support Web-based transactions.

This section contains:

• ADO Overview: Provides a brief overview of ActiveX Data Objects.
• Remote Data Binding with Remote Data Service: Gives an introduction to Remote Data Services and client-side data binding.

ADO is also illustrated in the ASP Tutorial in Module One, Lesson 3: Creating a Guest Book using a Database.