If your hosting has FrontPage Server Extensions...

milette — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:02:50 +0000

Any decent hosting company (UNIX or Microsoft-based) will offer FrontPage Server Extensions and the ability to use a Microsoft Access Database file. (.MDB)

The fastest fastest and easiest way to get a DB up would be the following:

1. Enable the FrontPage Server Extensions on the web site.
2. Design your database in Microsoft Access. (Plenty of wizards/templates to help.) Save the database to your desktop.
3. Open the web site in Microsoft FrontPage.
4. Drag the .mdb file from your desktop into the site in FrontPage. (Top-level folder.)
5. Front Page will detect the FrontPage Server Extensions on the site, and ask you if you want to put the database into an fpdb folder. Yes, you do. Permissions will be set appropriately.

Once you reach this point, you can use the FrontPage wizards to display data from the database in almost mindless fashion.

Adding data to the database means you need to create a form, and configure the form properties to write the appropriate form fields to the appropriate FrontPage database and table fields.

By the way, ALL of this can be done without writing a single line of database access code. Simple wizards and HTML is all you need to worry about.

Of course, if you can't use FP Server extensions, don't have Access and/or don't have FrontPage -- then you have a little different problem...

Marty R. Milette
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ql2day — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:10:17 +0000

~KingSiberia~ wrote: Okay, I'm the webmaster for a company called CatsINC., and I ~~need~~ to get a database fast, but there's a problem.
I am dumbfounded about how to make one and how to work it.
So, I am welcome for instructions.

A database of what for what? You might want to start by hiring a DBA/consultant!

chrishirst — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:41:56 +0000

Not something to learn in a short time!

do you have db facilities on your host? if so, what db server is it ?