ASP Database??

[nickyfraggle]

Hello,

Someone is trying to send me what they tell me is an Access database. However is it coming through with a .asp extension. Apparently it is a database that they are able to access on their computer through MS Access.

What I don't understand is that .asp is Active Server Page files, a scripting language, and I don't understand how this can be a database?

What is an asp database? If there is such a thing, and if so how do I open one? Dreamweaver doesn't know what to do with it.

Google isn't being much help here.

Thanks,

Nicola

[Old Pedant]

I think they don't know what they are doing.

Tell them that if the DB is truly an Access database then you *MUST* have the ".mdb" file. Period.

More than likely, what they are sending you is an ASP page that they use to read and display certain info from the DB. So if you read the code, you could find what the name of the ".mdb" file is, but that would be all. (And maybe not even that, if they are depending on a #include file to get the DB connection, or maybe using a so-called DSN or File DSN or or or ....) In any case, it's not worth your time to hassle with it. Tell them "no .mdb file, no work".