In This Chapter:

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity

Database Role in Internet Applications

Overview of current trends in database use for web applications

Internet HTTP Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTML and CGI

Hypertext Markup Language and Common Gateway Interface

Client Side Scripting

A better and faster way for processing data

Server Side Scripting

A program that process client requests

Application Servers

A computer that runs software applications within a network

Exercise - Putting data from the Healthy Gym database on the Web

A simple exercise to apply the lessons learned