> i am using the examples from chapter 10 of the the wrox book: 

Professional ASP 3.0. 

> the examples relate to using RDS but i can not get the data to display 

in the HTML 

> page. the following are the code i am using. note that i have changed 

the params to 

> reflect my SQL database. Could the problem be some configurtaion i need 

to set on 

> the server?. Thanks in advance.

> 

> CODE:

> 

> <OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:BD96C556-65A3-11D0-983A-00C04FC29E33"

>         ID="dsoData" HEIGHT="1" WIDTH="1">

>   <PARAM NAME="Connect" VALUE="DSN=pubs;uid=sa;pwd=">

>   <PARAM NAME="Server" VALUE="http://localhost">

>   <PARAM NAME="SQL" VALUE="select * from authors">

> </OBJECT>

> 

> <TABLE ID="tblData" DATASRC="#dsoData">

>   <THEAD>

>    <TR>

>     <TD>au_id</TD>

>     <TD>au_fname</TD>

>     <TD>au_lname</TD>

>     <TD>phone</TD>

>     <TD>address</TD>

>     <TD>city</TD>

>     <TD>state</TD>

>     <TD>zip</TD>

>     <TD>contract</TD>

>    </TR>

>   </THEAD>

>   <TBODY>

>    <TR>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="au_id"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="au_fname"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="au_lname"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="phone"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="address"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="city"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="state"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="zip"></INPUT></TD>

>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" DATAFLD="contract"></INPUT></TD>

>    </TR>

>   </TBODY>

> </TABLE>



If you have SQL Server 2000, start Profiler, connect it to server, and 

then start asp application. You will see if your app gets pubs with its 

request...

Viktor