You should not use JavaScript to access the database for several reasons, but if you really want to do so, here is an example:
var connection = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection") ;
var connectionstring="Data Source=<server>;Initial Catalog=<catalog>;User ID=<user>;Password=<password>;Provider=SQLOLEDB";
connection.Open(connectionstring);
var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
rs.Open("SELECT * FROM table", connection);
rs.MoveFirst
while(!rs.eof)
{
document.write(rs.fields(1));
rs.movenext;
}
rs.close;
connection.close;
A good way to do this would be to use secondary languages such as PHP, Java, .NET, etc.
I hope I have helped.