Querying a Database

Ian Stallings
I think this has been covered about a godzillion times but I want to show ASP newbies a clear and easy method to pull data from a database and place it in a webpage.

I think this has been covered about a godzillion times
but I want to show ASP newbies a clear and easy method to
pull data from a database and place it in a webpage.

There are a few objects you can use to get the data from a
database, but I prefer the connection object because it
takes about 3 lines of code to use a SQL statement.

(Before writing the script, make sure you have a DSN to the
DB setup correctly.)

First thing we do is open an active connection to the DB
using the connection object like so:

Set oConn = Server.CreateObject(“ADODB.Connection”)

oConn.Open “DSN=Web;UID=username;PWD=password”


We can then build the SQL statement using:

sql = “SELECT UserName FROM Accounts Where UserName=’madcow'”



We then set the RS object using this line of code:

Set RS = oConn.Execute(sql)



All done! Now that we have the data, we can place it
in our HTML like this:

Keep in mind that this is a very simple example and can be
expanded on greatly. If you have any comments or questions feel
free to drop me a line.