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CHAPTER 26
Database Connections for 
ASP Developers
To use a database with a Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) application, you need to create a 
database connection in Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. This chapter describes how to create the 
database connection.
The chapter assumes you have set up an ASP application (see 
). It also assumes a database is set up on your local computer or on 
a system to which you have network or FTP access. 
To connect to the sample database provided by Dreamweaver, see “Setup for Sample ASP 
Site” in Getting Started with Dreamweaver. To learn more about databases and database 
connections, see 
.
About database connections in ASP
An ASP application must connect to a database through an ODBC driver or an OLE DB 
provider. Creating an OLE DB connection can improve the speed of your connection.
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