ASP can be used to display information directly from a database residing on the server, without the database naming conventions being available to the viewer. It also allows ease and speed in accessing the database information.

Note that the database information and other information pertaining to the table shown is not shown in the final html code available in a browser. The ASP code below connects to a MySQL database, and produces a simple table output from the database.

<% ' this code opens the database connect_string = "Driver={Mysql}; Server= localhost; Database=domainname_com; UID=username; PWD= password"set dbConn= server.createObject("ADODB.connection") dbConn.open connect_string ' this code retrieves the data mySQL="select * from asptest" set rstemp=dbConn.execute(mySQL) ' this code detects if data is empty If rstemp.eof then response.write "No records matched
" response.write mySQL & "
So cannot make table..." connection.close set connection= nothing response.end end if %>
<% ' This code puts fieldnames into column headings response.write"<tr>" for each whatever in rstemp.fields response.write "<td>" & whatever.name & "</TD>" next response.write "</tr>" ' Now lets grab all the records DO UNTIL rstemp.eof ' put fields into variables Name=rstemp("name") City=rstemp("city") State=rstemp("state") Email=rstemp("email") Phone=rstemp("phone") Name=rstemp("name")' write the fields to browser cellstart= "<td align= ""top"">" response.write "<tr>" response.write cellstart & Name & "</td>" response.write cellstart& City& "</td>"response.write cellstart& State& "</td>"response.write cellstart & Email & "</td>" response.writecellstart &Phone& "</td>" response.write"</tr>" rstemp.movenext LOOP %> <% ' Nowclose and dispose of resourcesrstemp.close set rstemp= nothing dbConn.close set dbConn= nothing %> From here youcan easily modify the SELECT statement tolook for specificresults, much as you would from a Search box. So this modified SELECT statement:

mySQL="select * from asptest where phone LIKE '555%'"