Securing ASP Data Access

As an ASP programmer, I am always writing code that accesses databases. Many applications, such as Site Server, Commerce Server, SharePoint, and Content Management Server provide their own API that helps an ASP programmer tie into this data in a secure and efficient way. That's nice if you have access to these remarkably expensive platforms, but what about the rest of us? Well, you could roll up your sleeves and just whip off a couple COM objects; however unless you are a crewmember of the starship Voyager, such miracles are unlikely.

Usually, what it comes down to is something more like this:

We need less than a second glance to see why this is bad. Any hacker who manages to view the ASP code will now have full access to your database server as well.