Hi,
I'm the administrator of an Oracle database. I would like to create an ASP page which allows users to login and delete certain records. I use Dreamweaver. Can anyone provide some assistance as to how to create a connection to the Database and create an ASP page from there?

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers

DreamWeaver has some wizards for doing such a thing. Have you tried that first?

I don't like the wizards. Do you know how to do this? I'm using Dreamweaver MX

Understood, but if you've never used ASP before, you may have some difficulty.

First you have to define how you want the user to update information. Do they need to login first? Once on, do they have to search the database for the record(s) they want to edit? Or will they know what to enter into the form to update the data?

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Here is something I put together about ASP that hopefully might help somehow.

You and others can have access to a database hosted on the Web from any location that has a browser with an Internet connection.

The Web database concept makes sense if you and your people want to do work in various locations in or outside the office and still be "plugged" in.

For example you could have employees enter timesheets or have sales reps log their contacts. Or perhaps you'd like customers to be able to check the status of their orders online without having to call the company.

If you want a Web database, typically what would happen is that a database such as Access or MySQL (basically just consisting of tables) would be put on the Web.

Then "dynamic" Web pages (actually ASP pages which include VBScript, HTML, and/or JavaScript) would be created acting like the old desktop database's queries, forms, and reports to access the database - all hosted on a Web Server.

Dynamic Web pages are similar in many ways to regular HTML pages. But they are "live" because the user can read from and write to information in the database. An example where you can login and add, edit, or view fictional customers and invoices is at http://www.bullschmidt.com/login.asp

Not all Web hosts will handle dynamic Web pages but many do. The Web hosts that can handle ASP pages usually have a Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 operating system running an IIS Web server.

Here are a few good ASP sites:
o ASP101 Samples - http://www.asp101.com/samples
o W3Schools ASP Tutorial - http://www.w3schools.com/asp
o Microsoft VBScript Language Reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/...bscripttoc.htm

And the following newsgroup is good:
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general

Or for a "quick and dirty" generic ASP open source solution to putting databases on the Web that just requires setting up a configuration page for each table or query and uploading the database to the Web as long as there is an autonumber field in each table (and you'll probably also separately want to create login capabilities), perhaps try something like this:
GenericDB by Eli Robillard
http://www.genericdb.com and then click on the Tips link to see an example

And my favorite connection strings resource:

Able Consulting - ADO Connection String Samples
http://www.able-consulting.com/ADO_Conn.htm