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asp_databases thread: ASP/ADO Implementation Issues
Message #1 by "Ray Murphy" <raymondmurphy@c...> on Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:45:38
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I am currently looking into the possibility of web-enabling some of our
existing databases, and possibly providing public Internet access to
theese
databases (or maybe a copy of these databases). The stage I am at is in
deciding whether to try and do this in-house, or to out-source the
required
work.
I have a reasonable understanding of ASP/ADO as applied to the development
of LOCAL 'test' applications on my development platform, but would like to
ask what may be a basic question regarding the deployment and
implementaion
of ASP/ADO applications.
For the relevant databases, is the following scenario possible :
a) Relevant database and web server software sits on
dedicated server machine, with IIS, ASP , ADO, ODBC
all present on the server ;
b) Server machine has mixture of HTML/ASP pages which
carry out the ASP-ADO specifics of connecting to
the database and retrieving the database data ;
c) Potential users out in cyberspace fire up their
web browser, point their browser to the web site
on our dedicated server, access the pages on our
dedicated server and finally have the data
displayed in their own browser window ;
I suppose my main question is the above scenario feasible WITHOUT the
public's client machines having any ODBC software/drivers installed ?
Thanks.
Ray
Message #2 by "Ken Schaefer" <ken.s@a...> on Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:10:54 +1000
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Ray,
What you describe is entirely possible - in fact most database driven
websites do exactly what you are describing (eg look at www.dell.com,
www.gw2k.com etc).
You retrieve information from a database and merge the results into a
webpage. All that is sent to the client is stock standard HTML.
Cheers
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Murphy"
To: "ASP Databases" <asp_databases@p...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 10:45 PM
Subject: [asp_databases] ASP/ADO Implementation Issues
> I am currently looking into the possibility of web-enabling some of our
> existing databases, and possibly providing public Internet access to
> theese
> databases (or maybe a copy of these databases). The stage I am at is in
> deciding whether to try and do this in-house, or to out-source the
> required
> work.
>
> I have a reasonable understanding of ASP/ADO as applied to the development
> of LOCAL 'test' applications on my development platform, but would like to
> ask what may be a basic question regarding the deployment and
> implementaion
> of ASP/ADO applications.
>
> For the relevant databases, is the following scenario possible :
>
> a) Relevant database and web server software sits on
> dedicated server machine, with IIS, ASP , ADO, ODBC
> all present on the server ;
>
> b) Server machine has mixture of HTML/ASP pages which
> carry out the ASP-ADO specifics of connecting to
> the database and retrieving the database data ;
>
> c) Potential users out in cyberspace fire up their
> web browser, point their browser to the web site
> on our dedicated server, access the pages on our
> dedicated server and finally have the data
> displayed in their own browser window ;
>
> I suppose my main question is the above scenario feasible WITHOUT the
> public's client machines having any ODBC software/drivers installed ?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ray
>
Message #3 by "Mark Morgan" <mark.morgan@v...> on Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:16:52 +0100
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Ray,
The ASP code runs on the server and uses ODBC on the server to connect to
the databases, so the client does not need the required ODBC drivers
installed, it's that thin client concept, Magic!
Mark.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Murphy
Sent: 04 July 2000 22:46
To: ASP Databases
Subject: [asp_databases] ASP/ADO Implementation Issues
I am currently looking into the possibility of web-enabling some of our
existing databases, and possibly providing public Internet access to
theese
databases (or maybe a copy of these databases). The stage I am at is in
deciding whether to try and do this in-house, or to out-source the
required
work.
I have a reasonable understanding of ASP/ADO as applied to the development
of LOCAL 'test' applications on my development platform, but would like to
ask what may be a basic question regarding the deployment and
implementaion
of ASP/ADO applications.
For the relevant databases, is the following scenario possible :
a) Relevant database and web server software sits on
dedicated server machine, with IIS, ASP , ADO, ODBC
all present on the server ;
b) Server machine has mixture of HTML/ASP pages which
carry out the ASP-ADO specifics of connecting to
the database and retrieving the database data ;
c) Potential users out in cyberspace fire up their
web browser, point their browser to the web site
on our dedicated server, access the pages on our
dedicated server and finally have the data
displayed in their own browser window ;
I suppose my main question is the above scenario feasible WITHOUT the
public's client machines having any ODBC software/drivers installed ?
Thanks.
Ray
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