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The author writes "It is important to know what is going on with your site in development and production. By implementing proper error logging, you can quickly track down errors, and provide your team members with enhanced error information." This tutorial describes how to create a simple and effective logging system using the new ASP Error object.

This short example will allow you to dynamically create "static" html documents from an Access data on your web server using Active Server Pages. Basically after reading the contents of the db, instead of writing output to the browser it is written to the server.

What's behind an image? Just about anything you there to be including a db. A typical image tag downloads an image to be processed by the browser an image tag that references an active server page can do most anything and output an image to be displayed as the final output to the user. This example will add one to an Access db (to count the number of impressions). The Access db will also add when the impression occurred automatically and redirect will send the user to an image to be displayed in the browser.

The ASP data access component is one of the most powerful features of ASP. With this component you are able to interface your database(s) directly with your webserver. Database access in ASP is, or can be, very complex. This online tutorial focuses on just a few objects to help you get started with the basics and you can then move forward from there.

New to ASP? This two page tutorial explains what ASP is and variables in ASP with a few sample codes.

Here, you will learn how to use VBScript and textfiles to make content on your site easy to update. All code is available.

Displaying specific subsets of data from a database is easy to accomplish in .asp. The following example utilizes an Access database of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych and displays all of his season statistics for 1976 contained in the database rather than displaying the entire db.

This article will help you to create a System Data Source Name (DSN) for Microsoft SQL Server on your local machine. After a System DSN has been created you can use it within any ASP page located on the same computer.

This introductory guide presents 5 useful VBScript tricks and examples. IT shows you how to detect the IP address of your visitors, detect the user's browser, how to include files in your ASP pages, how to force the script to continue with the next statement when it encounters an error, and how to make subroutines.

This tutorial shows you step-by-step how to make a banner rotate include file for including in your ASP pages. All source code is available.

This a quick introductory guide to Active Server Pages. Explains what it is, what it can do, and what you need to get started.

Many a time, you are confronted with creating a system DSN for use with ASP. If you have an ISP account, this might take time and more than sometimes - money. This article describes how to use File DSNs and save time and money. Also, you can reuse these DSNs and thus, with some modifications, use the same DSN for as many database connections.

Active Server Pages allow us an easy means of querying and updating a database from a webpage. This article describes the basics of using this technique in a nutshell. The examples given here utilize a Microsoft Access database, but the principles elucidated apply equally well to ASP integration with other databaes.

ODBC is great and all but for speed and reliability you should switch to OLE DB to power your database driven apps. This tutorial will show you how to do it two ways: in the global.asa and in any ASP page.

SQL, Structured Query Language, is the most powerful tool to connect to a database regardless of the form of the database. However, building a perfect SQL statement can be very frustrating. Especially debugging -- the error message simply didn't tell you where the error is. This tutorial provides a nice summary of SQL statements.

This article will show how to connect an Access database to your Active Server Pages using Microsoft FrontPage. This is a beginning-level article with plenty of screen shots to show how to connect via ODBC, generate a SQL query in Access and construct the Active Server Page.

Here, you will find reference material on Active Server Pages 3.0 Object model. Browse through all the methods, collections, properties and events in ASP Object Model (Six built-in Objects including the new ASPError Object).

Connections, Commands and Procedures is a sample chapter from Professional Active Server Pages which discuss in depth all the issues related with establishing connection to a database to the carrying out of commands and procedures.

Complete tutorial on editing and updating records in the database. Each and every step explained in detail for ASP beginners. Both Connection and Recordset Objects discussed.

This is a tutorial on creating and using COM Component: Sample chapter from Beginning ATL 3 COM Programming.