How to connect to SQL Server database from JavaScript in the browser?

Question

Can anybody give me some sample source code showing how to connect to a SQL Server 2005 database from JavaScript locally? I am learning web programming on my desktop.

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Answer 1

(sorry, this was a more generic answer about SQL backends--I hadn't read the answer about SQL Server 2005's WebServices feature. Although, this feature is still run over HTTP rather than more directly via sockets, so essentially they've built a mini web server into the database server, so this answer is still another route you could take.)

You can also connect directly using sockets (google "javascript sockets") and by directly at this point I mean using a Flash file for this purpose, although HTML5 has Web Sockets as part of the spec which I believe let you do the same thing.

Some people cite security issues, but if you designed your database permissions correctly you should theoretically be able to access the database from any front end, including OSQL, and not have a security breach. The security issue, then, would be if you weren't connecting via SSL.

Finally, though, I'm pretty sure this is all theoretical because I don't believe any JavaScript libraries exist for handling the communications protocols for SSL or SQL Server, so unless you're willing to figure these things out yourself it'd be better to go the route of having a web server and server-side scripting language in between the browser and the database.