Putting Databases on the Web

[Randy Anderson]

Andrew,

The answer depends on your programming skills and budget.  Microsoft 
includes in IIS a capability called ASP (Active Server Pages). ASP replaced 
IDC (Internet Database Connector) which replaced dbweb.  ASP requires 
knowledge of VB and I recommend you get Visual InterDev if you are going to 
use it.

The other leading "non-vb" solution is ColdFusion from Allaire 
(http://www.allarie.com)  it uses an html tag concept.  It does cost $$, 
around $600 the last time I looked.

Hope this helps.

Randy Anderson
Kirkland Library Board
Kirkland, WA
rmanders at sprynet.com

On Monday, January 26, 1998 8:47 AM, Andrew J. Mutch 
[SMTP:amutch at tln.lib.mi.us] wrote:
> My big mission this year is to make our local newspaper microfilm index
> available via the WWW.  I currently use dbweb, a free unsupported
> Microsoft product, to proved access to this 500,000 record Access
> database.  Dbweb allows users to query the database and have the results
> returned in HTML format.  However, because of some limitations I have 
been
> unable to get around, I'm looking for something better.
>
> Specifically, I need:
>
> A product that will allow queries via an HTML page to an Access Database
> and will return the results in HTML format.  This product should allow
> various forms of queries and should allow for customization of both the
> query and result pages.  Load on the server and speed are also important
> considerations.  We currently run IIS 4.0 on a NT 4.0 166 MHz-128MB RAM
> server.
>
> Any recommendations for specific products, preferably from experience, 
and
> sites which would provide further assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Northville District Library
> Northville, MI
>