Applied on Windows Server
 

Connection String is a string which contains database connection information and it will be passed to the Driver Manager and driver (ADO) directly. The connection string need to be formatted as below form for active server pages (ASP scripts):  

 For MS Access Database
 
 'variable for your MS Access database path  
    db_path = "/data/database.mdb"  
'variable for database user id and password  
db_user = "Administrator"  
db_pass = "mypassword"  
'variable for connection string  
db_con_str =  "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};" & "DBQ=" & db_path & ";;uid=" &   db_user & ";pwd=" & db_pass & ";"  
   
 For MS SQL Server Database
 
 db_server = ","  
 db_user = "username"  
db_pass = "password"  
db_name = "database name"  
db_con_str = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=" & db_server & ";User ID=" & db_user & ";Password=" & db_pass & ";Initial Catalog=" & db_name  
 
 Example For My SQL Database
 
 Dim sConnection, objConn , objRS  
 db_server = "My SQL server name or IP"  
 db_user = "username"  
db_pass = "password"  
db_name = "database name"  
 db_con_str = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver}; SERVER=" & db_server & "; DATABASE=" & db_name & "; UID=" & db_user & ";PASSWORD=" & db_pass & "; OPTION=3"  
 
 Example to create ADODB connection with database  
 
 
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")  
objConn.ConnectionString = db_con_str  
objConn.Open