Use the GetString() method to speed up your ASP script (instead of using multiple Response.Write's).

The following example demonstrates one way of how to display a database query in an HTML table:

<html>
<body>

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.recordset")
rs.Open "SELECT Companyname, Contactname FROM Customers", conn
%>

<table border="1" width="100%">
<%do until rs.EOF%>
  <tr>
    <td><%Response.Write(rs.fields("Companyname"))%></td>
    <td><%Response.Write(rs.fields("Contactname"))%></td>
  </tr>
<%rs.MoveNext
loop%>
</table>

<%
rs.close
conn.close
set rs = Nothing
set conn = Nothing
%>

</body>
</html>

For a large query, this can slow down the script processing time, since many Response.Write commands must be processed by the server.

The solution is to have the entire string created, from <table> to </table>, and then output it - using Response.Write just once.



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