A lot of today's business data lies in complex databases. The Web provides a new way to access such data. This approach has many advantages as the Web clients are available in many platforms and the data can be accessed anywhere as long as a connection to the Internet is available.
Developers can choose from amongst many approaches to web-enable their database applications.
This overview document provides a summary of some of the resources available on this topic. An NT version of web.sql is also available. Oracle provides a World Wide Web Interface kit to integrate Oracle7 databases with Web servers. I a ViewSource article demonstrates fundamental techniques to create interactive database-access applications using server side JavaScript. This includes both LiveWire and NetDynamics to allow interaction between a Web server and a relational database.