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This article describes how to use Microsoft SQL Server triggers to automatically record all updates and inserts for a particular database table in a customized history table.

This article shows how to create charts generated on the fly from a database, using <a href="http://www.compsysaus.com.au/intrchart">IntrChart</a>. Also explains how to dynamically add hot spots to the bars/slices in our chart and link them to other pages.

This article presents a nice little chat system that uses Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object to transfer the messages and user list. It features public as well as private modes, and is currently configured so that the browser requests the current users list from the server every 5 seconds. This article assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML.

This article describes several ways to use a SQL calculated field and the ORDER BY clause to arrange a recordset in random order. It provides a simple tool for verifying that the results are uniformly random. Also shows a technique for bubbling records with certain attributes to the top of an otherwise randomized list.

This is a basic code that allows you email form results using CDO on an NT / IIS server.

This article looks at a couple of ways to get the code in the client-side and server-side to communicate each other: Using the Javascript Array and Using ASP and XML.

Full VBS code, which lets you accept x-www-form-urlencoded forms in ASP without limit of size using BinaryRead (Request.Form has 100kB limit), recomended solution from MS KB (Q273482). Source of URLDecode function included.

A small code snippet that lets you eliminate 'Object Moved, This object may be found here' problem that occur on IIS server with some versions of proxy servers.

This article shows a simple way to upload files from client to server using VBS, IE and ADODB as multipart/form-data document. Full source code included.

This article explains a solution on how to increase the performance of your ASP pages that rely on gathering data through several different Recordsets. Specially, using a nifty feature of the ADO Recordset object, Multiple Recordsets, you can store multiple SQL query results in one Recordset object, requiring fewer communications with the database.

This is a simple font customization sample that illustrates how to easily let your visitors pick whatever settings they prefer on your site. It covers the basic process of letting a user pick their settings, previewing the resulting effect, and then saving their configuration for future visits.

This is a group of 3 tutorials that guide you through the process of using an MS Access Database in ASP. The tutorials teach you how to connect to a database, add data to the database, update the database, and delete from the database. The 3 tutorials together allow you to build a simple Guestbook for your web site.

Would you like to provide multi-language support on your site? This article discusses three different ways in which you could organize your site to support multiple languages.

Reusability is one of the simplest and the oldest concepts in programming. It is also the most underutilized concept. When implemented correctly and purposefully, it can save time and money, as well as create an inventory for valuable and reusable software assets. This article discusses such topics as what resuability is, why it is important, its usages, and more.

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 step-by-step tutorial covers the basics from dynamic resizing of arrays, to useful array functions, to finding elements in an array and passing an array from page to page.

This article covers rarely discussed feature of ADO Recordsets, disconnected Recordsets. It examines what disconnected Recordsets are, how to use them, and what advantages they offer over connected Recordsets. Also examines how to create custom, disconnected Recordsets.

This article describes how to create a simple stats tracking program to demonstrate how to deal with records using XML, instead of ADO Object. Source code available for download.

This example demonstrates how to serve a custom page to users whenever a 404 error occurs as well as log the user info such as ip, referer, request, agent into a database.

This is Part I of the "Start programming with ASP" article series by onlineprogrammer.org . It is designed for newbie web programmers. You will learn ASP with easy lessons, examples and exercises.