As I have said I do not now the older version of ASP, only .NET. If you want to do some reading up on using .NET to access databases the links below are a good place to start:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...lstudionet.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...WithADONET.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...accessdata.asp

I would personally stear away from using ODBC and go with something like ADO/ADO.NET or even OLEDB