extracting information from databases

Is javascript a good language to use when it comes to accessing information from a databse (a simple txt file say) and then presenting it onto a page?

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What I’m trying to do is set a list of contacts into a text file. On the page i would ideally like a simple drop-down menu of all the entries of the first field of the database. And then at the click of a button i want the other fields to be printed onto the screen at a certain point.

i’m new to javascript (and have only learnt a [i]tiny[/i] bit of JAVA before)…and i’m teaching myself too. But having said that…i’m confident that i can do everything i want in the above…except for accessing the database. I could do it using java, but don’t really want to be creating an applet – i’m trying to keep it small(ish). And if applets are needed, there’s better ones out there than the ones i would write.
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cheers
Al

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