in message : I always heard people saying IIS ASP front end, and MS-SQL back end. ASP
is
: for server side programming and dynamic content generation, how could it
is
: called front end? Because I thought it is executed in the server, which is
: back end? I think I am confused with the term front end and back end here.
Hi Matt...
In the scenario you described, back-end refers to dynamic data-driven web
sites. You can have ASP files without using a database. Using a database
on the back end will give more of a dynamic site with less duplication.
Your ASP files will work as templates and the data will be provided by the
ASP processor making ADO connections to the database to provide content.
When comparing client/server side scripting, front/back end is not relevant
because static HTML pages do not have a back end. ASP code is processed by
the ASP processor, dynamic content can be retrieved by using dynamic content
from files or databases and the result will be served to the client
[browser] to render along with any client-side scripting, if included. Once
the browser gets the content, the ASP and database processing has been
completed until another trip to the server to get more.
HTH...
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Roland Hall
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