When I started, I just got asp for dummies, looked for the pages I needed
help with, and that was all I needed. The rest I learned online. You just
need the basics. If you know SQL (update table set field = 'value', insert
into table(field1, field2) values('a','b'), etc., then you just need to know
how to connect.

Here are the basics.

<%

set cn = server.createobject("adodb.connection")
cn.open "your dsn here"

set rs = cn.execute("select name from table where employeetype = 1")

do until rs.eof

response.write rs("name")
response.write "<br>"

rs.movenext
loop

set rs = nothing
cn.close
set cn = nothing

%>

From there, you just build on it.

You can also get into asp.net which I haven't because it is totally
different and from what I did learn, if felt like it was much harder to do
it than with ASP.

Regards,

Michael C. Gates



"Grahammer" <webmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> Can someone recommend a decent book that covers the topic of using ASP
> with databases?
>
> I was considering the WROX "Beginning ASP Databases" (ISBN 1861002726)
> but it was published in 1999 and only covers ASP 2. I haven't been
> able to find anything newer on this topic.
>
> I assume that any book that covers ADO and ASP would work, but not
> knowing too much, I'm not sure.
>
> I'm not new to programming, but I haven't done much in the way of web
> based application development.
>
> Thanks!
>
>