Day 5. Building Your Product Catalog

In today's lesson, you will begin building your online store. You'll learn how to create and manage your store's inventory of products using ASP scripts. You'll also learn several valuable techniques for working with databases. Today, you will learn the following:

• How to create a database for your store

• How to create the Products table to contain your product information

• How to connect to a database within an ASP page

• How to use ASP scripts to add new products

• How to use ASP scripts to update existing product information

Creating the Store Database

The first step in creating your online store is to create a database to hold all the information about your products. In this book, we will be using Microsoft ...

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