What are Data Access pages??

[andy_dyer]

Just thought I'd see if anyone knows why, what and how about these??

If these are useful and I should be incorporating them into my database, I am always open to suggestions! (clean ones!)

If anyone has a demo database that they wish to share....

Thanks

Andy

 

[Hayley Baxter]

Have a look at the Northwind Example Database. This includes Data Access Pages. I think I am correct in saying that the majority of people prefer to use ASP rather than DAP. I am currently learning ASP but haven't looked much at Data Access Pages nor have I ever used them.

 

[yippie_ky_yay]

My guess would be that your users only need a browser to view data and don't need Access ...?

Personally, I like Coldfusion and/or ASP. Either way, they are tools to create dynamic web pages - meaning that changes to your database will reflect immediately on your site.

-Sean

 

[Autoeng]

I've been fooling around with DAP's for a while and I would personally recommend moving to ASP as SAP's are very limited and difficult to work with. For instance you cannot select every item on a page to change the font at once but must select each item one at a time. We had to put a lot of VB behind the DAP's to get them to function properly as well.

 

[Tiro Cupidus]

Or PHP, which these forums run off of

 

[andy_dyer]

Ok... Thanks Guys (and Gals!)

Next question what are ASP's??

 

[Mile-O]

Active Server Pages

 

[Hayley Baxter]

Here's a beginners tutorial for ASP if you fancy reading up on it.

ASP Tutorial

 

[andy_dyer]

That's great hayley!

Thanks!



All these abbreviations!!

I was just wondering whether DAP's were a way of making a more professional front end to the database instead of using my incredible deisgn skills in my forms

I will read up!

Thanks again,

Andy

 

[hi there]

http://www.w3schools.com/

has some great tutorials on classic ASP and the ASP.NET. they also have good tutorials on some HTML and ADO basics. unfortunately no ADO.NET tutorials yet, but they'll probably make it there shortly. i'm also in the process of learning ASP.NET and their tutorials were very helpful. if you decide to go the .NET route you can download WebMatrix from www.asp.net. it's a nice little IDE for learning ASP.NET. it provides you with a WYSIWYG editor for dragging web controls onto your forms and then examing the code created to understand what's going on. it also gives you the option of coding in VB.NET, C#, or J#.

hope that helps