I need an online database for ASP.net server

hurtstotalktoyou

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Hey, all. I'd like to set up a database for a music site. The basic idea is to have a discography, song lists and lyrics pages all tied together with links on every album and song title. I thought about maybe using a wiki, and so I investigated OpenWiki, but I haven't the faintest clue how to go about installing it. And I just plum can't find any such non-wiki databases.

My service provider uses Microsoft, and so an ASP.net database would be required (no PHP). I've installed forum software before, so I have some idea of how this might work. Unfortunately, I still need lots of help.

Anyone have some spare time to help me out?

Thanks in advance!
 

Zugzwang152

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databases are completely independent of the server side scripting language. If your host is Microsoft based, they don't provide your with SQL Server databases as part of your plan?
 

hurtstotalktoyou

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Well, when I said "database" I meant a database of lyrics and songs and such, not a Microsoft database. My web space account does feature databases--MS Access, I believe.
 

DaveSimmons

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Lyrics pages technically violate songwriter copyrights, so you'll probably be lawyered at some point if you include them.

Have you looked at www.AllMusic.com ? It's going to be hard to compete with them.
 

hurtstotalktoyou

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I'm good on the legal end of things. As for competition, the website I help run is already established as the quintessential site for the artist it promotes. I currently have the lyrics in collapsable javascript tables, but I want to make it so that every title is linked to separate pages, which are in turned linked to the discography, and so on.