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

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.

This tutorial shows how to keep information from the user in your server (Session method) and how to share information between users (Application method). This is only a basic tutorial for beginners with only basic features are described.

This article will show you how to build a stack bar chart using ASP and without using any components. The resulting chart looks quite nice and offers the ability to read the actual data values of the bars through the tooltip text. Source code available for download.

This tutorial explains the complete banner ad system used at the site, "CoverYourASP". Database driven, but using Application variables extensively, it tracks impressions and clickthroughs and is fully automatic. Source code available for download.

A very important coding method to understand when developing ASP pages is the page that submits to itself. This technique is very powerful and can drastically reduce the number of files you have to maintain and the number of places in which you need to make changes when maintaining code. The concept is simple. Using forms, set the action value to the URL of the page in which the form resides. Then use ASP code to determine what the current state of the page, and present the proper output to the user.

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.

This tutorial presents a couple of ways to display your data in a graphical way by using charts without using server components. The first approach is using images with ASP to display bar graphs. The second approach is a Java applet that can display a more advanced graph, but depends on a Java capable browser.

This is a step by step tutorial on creating ASP COM Component in Microsoft Visual Basic. Sample Project files available for download.

This tutorial will show you how use the File Scripting Object to both write to and append to a text file.

Basic idea and full source code to remote access contents of ASP Application object from a remote script. Lets you read, write and enumerate application dictionary from the remote script (WSH, remote ASP/IIS server) or application.

This is a simple tip that presents an ASP class that can read the properties of a Macromedia Flash file (a .swf file). You can use this handy class to read the height, width, version, file length, twips readings, frame rate, and frame count of a Flash file on your Web server.

A step by step tutorial on caching data in memory. This tutorial goes one step further from simply caching data in memory to allow you to set a time limit in seconds after which it refreshes the data in memory. Extremely useful technique. Online demo available.

This tutorial along with a simple example code shows how to create a database-driven click-through tracking system using ASP. Useful for monitoring click-throughs for banners, hyperlinks or file downloads.

This short tutorial demonstrates how to insert data into a SQL database using SQL statements.