Databases allow for information to dynamically change based on user preferences. Databases facilitate easy inclusion of data from a common source to preserve consistency across many World Wide Web pages. Databases can be accessed via report writers for ad hoc reporting accessible via the World Wide Web. Databases are easier to use than one might imagine. Databases facilitate the use of security to limit access to World Wide Web information.
Databases are efficient and easily reconfigured.
This presentation will demonstrate how Microsoft's SQLServer and Internet Information Server can be used to access and present web information from a database via the World Wide Web efficiently with a minimal learning curve. The environment in which system operates is crucial to the utilization of tools that have been developed. The methodology used to develop the capability to easily incorporate databases into World Wide Web documents starts with the Active Server Pages. When the server sees that the page being asked for by the client has an ASP suffix, it knows it must scan the page before sending it to the client for Visual Basic code. If any Visual Basic code is found, it is executed before the page is served.