You can. But it would be much easy to use PHP with MySQL, at least there is phpMyAdmin to help with the interface with database. Connecting mySQL in ASP is as follow (change the dbname,username and password to yours):
<%
' Open database
Dim Conn, RS
Set Conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Open "Driver={MySql ODBC 3.51 Driver}; Server=localhost; database=dbname; uid=username; pwd=password; option=3;"
Set RS = Conn.Execute("SELECT * From tblcart")
' display results
While Not RS.EOF
Response.Write RS.Fields("fieldname") & "<br>"
RS.MoveNext
Wend
' closing connection
RS.Close
Conn.Close
Set RS = Nothing
Set Conn = Nothing
Since you just want to start learning ASP, it would be better to learn php, if you want to use mySQL. You can easily change to ASP or other server side language in the future as they are very much the same. I learnt ASP at the first place and store data in MS Access and now move to php and mySQL. It just take me couple months to master php.
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