I suggest downloading/installing the MySql ADO library (available from a
link off mysql.com downloads). Then you can write ASP pages (using ado
objects) to interact with your mysql database.
Before my suggestion catches the ire of all the php/linux snobs, I must
point out that our friend wants to use PWS (i.e. IIS-Lite). I say when in
Redmond do as the Redmondites do... and our friend is definitely in Redmond!
I must also point out that since you don't seem to have much invested in
PWS, perhaps you might consider whether another web server would better
suite your needs. You could, for instance, download Apache and PHP and take
a different road altogether. One advantage to this would be that you will
certainly find more examples of people using these technologies with mysql
than you will ado/asp. In either event, you should definitely look for a
less restrictive hosting arrangement.
Good luck.
Will French
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Newbie - PWS & SQL. Some VSQs (Very Silly Questions)
>
>
> .
> Dear List-Members,
>
> As I am EXTREMELY new to mysql and my connection to my ISP is a
> pay-per-minute one, doing the endless testing (koff, kofff....
> Ok, farffing
> around, getting lost, tired and emotional) with mysql can cost some dosh
> over time. I've only recently arrived at this work-station machine and
> found that the previous operator has Microsoft's Personal Web Server and
> mysql on it. She doesn't seem to have *done* anything with them, but
> recent magazine articles on mysql have whetted my interest.
> So.....
> Is there a step-by-step guide to installing/linking mysql - or
> whatever it
> is I have to do - onto the PWS to allow me to experiment locally? I date
> from the days of CP/M and DOS 3.2 and command lines, but have no
> experience
> of Linux/Unix. On the strength of various recommendations I
> read, I bought
> Mr duBois' book; I commend its jargon-free approach but it
> doesn't seem to
> mention PWS.
>
> After reading bits of http://www.mysql.com/articles/ddws/3.html I
> looked in
> my c:\mysql\bin and there are an *awful* lot of .exe files. When I go to
> my hosting site http://www.pay-as-you-host.com/help/howto/sql
> and load the
> tbl_FILENAMES.php files I've ftp-ed up to it from this machine,
> mysql seems
> to run all right - it certainly invites me to try all things.
>
> As there are three hard discs on this machine, "Be there dragons?" on
> operating across them - there seem to be some fairly heavy warnings
> everywhere on running mysql from anything other than its
> installed c:\ drive.
>
> Round about here is where I run out of intelligent questions (that is, if
> the above were intelligent....).
>
> In the usual way of things, after a couple of weeks' use and
> experimenting,
> I expect I'll cringe at the naive content of this message.
>
> Yooooors,
>
> Iain Lang.
> To Keep Well,
> You Must Sleep Well!
> http://www.divinebedding.co.uk
>
>
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