Before you can get content out of your MySQL database, you must know how to establish a connection to MySQL from inside a PHP script. To perform basic queries from within MySQL is very easy. This article will show you how to get up and running. More...
The power of Active Server Pages comes through when we tie databases to our web sites. To connect to a database, ASP uses what is called ActiveX Data Objects, or ADO for short. ADO comes with ASP, and can be used easily from your ASP pages. In this tutorial we will show you how to connect to our Access database and retrieve all the records from the table. More...
Connection strings are string variables which contain database connection information and then passed to ADO which will interpret them and act accordingly. Since there are going to be passed to ADO, they need to be in a comprehensible for ADO format. This tutorial was created as an easy reference of various ADO and ADO.NET connection strings for the most popular database types. More...
DSN stands for 'Data Source Name'. It is an easy way to assign useful and easily rememberable names to data sources which may not be limited to databases alone. DSN-less connections don't require creation of system level DSNs for connecting to databases and provide an alternative to DSNs. This tutorial will show you how to connect to an Access database with a DSN and without a DSN. More...
DSN stands for 'Data Source Name'. It is an easy way to assign useful and easily rememberable names to data sources which may not be limited to databases alone. In this tutorial we will show you how to connect with a DSN to an Access database called 'examples.mdb' and retrieve all the records from the table. More...
