I'm designing asp pages to access our client database. I'm quite new to 

this, and it would be a great help it you could explain what DNS is. I had 

to ask our hosting service to set this up in the directory our database was 

found in. Does this mean that the asp pages can only be executed from this 

directory? Can sequel statements access other directories?



Secondly, I have a form sending info to an asp page. The asp page has 

sequel statements to access the database. But when I try to use the pages, 

all it does is spew out the asp code. Should I shoot myself now and save 

the world much trouble later on?



Suicidal Programmers Unite!



Thanks

Matt

I think you are refferring to a DSN which is a data source name.  This means

that your entire site can see this no matter where the page is located.  It

is just a name that refers to your database.  The server recognizes this

name and then points to the correct database.  Any page that you create, no

matter which directory you place it in can call this DSN(Data Source Name)

and will be able to access it.  If you were to go into the control panel of

an NT Machine you will see an icon for ODBC Data Sources.  This is where the

entry is made on the server.  As far as your pages spewing out only the asp

code I am not sure what causes this but I have seen it before and it

mysteriously corrected itself.  Can anyone else answer this part of the

question?



-----Original Message-----

From: Matt Besseling 

Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:00 AM

To: ASP Databases

Subject: [asp_databases] DNS and Databases





I'm designing asp pages to access our client database. I'm quite new to

this, and it would be a great help it you could explain what DNS is. I had

to ask our hosting service to set this up in the directory our database was

found in. Does this mean that the asp pages can only be executed from this

directory? Can sequel statements access other directories?



Secondly, I have a form sending info to an asp page. The asp page has

sequel statements to access the database. But when I try to use the pages,

all it does is spew out the asp code. Should I shoot myself now and save

the world much trouble later on?



Suicidal Programmers Unite!



Thanks

Matt