Microsoft dbWeb

Microsoft dbWeb is a gateway between Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data sources and the Internet Information Server. You can use Microsoft dbWeb to selectively publish data from an ODBC data source by using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages. A user of a Web browser can easily create data queries and navigate by using hyperlinks through the data. But you control which data is accessible to users by creating parameters under Microsoft dbWeb that limit the data that can be retrieved by the user data queries. In other words, you can use Microsoft dbWeb to control access to the data you publish on the Internet and to provide easy-to-use tools such as query-by-example (QBE) and HTML.

Microsoft dbWeb supports 32-bit ODBC databases including:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro™

The architecture of Microsoft dbWeb includes these services, which are discussed in the sections that follow:

• The dbWeb Administrator, a graphical user interface
• The dbWeb Internet Server Application Program Interface (ISAPI) client (dbWebc.dll)
• The schema repository, a Microsoft Access database (dbWeb.mdb)
• The dbWeb Service, a Windows NT Server service