Setting Up the Access 2000 File
You will need Microsoft Access 2000 for the rest of this chapter. All of the example files were created using the Windows version of Access; at this time, Microsoft is not selling a Macintosh version of Access. However, the Access files on the book’s web site can be used on an NT Server, and all of the ASP pages created with the Macintosh can read and write the files and return data from the files.
For Windows users who have Access, the following set of steps shows how to set up the database. (The steps were written using Access 2000, but older versions can be used as well, with some slight differences. The point is to create a .mdb file with the set of fields shown.)
Launch Access 2000 from the Start menu. Select ...
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