I have a MS SQL db with some values in, if a column value is equal to X then i
would like to set the visibility of a movieclip to true. How easy would it be
to achieve this?

I've set an ASP page that outputs the info from my database in the
variable1=value1&variable2=value2 format but do not know how to get this data
into flash and use it!

Are there any tutorials that cover this, as I'm new to using Flash & DB and
may get easily confused.

More detail:
I have a table with eg. 20 rows. There would be a movie clip pre-placed within
my Flash movie for each row in the database. On getting the data from the
database into flash (via asp being on an ms platform) the movie clips are not
by default visible, only those whose corresponding column is X will then become
visible.

Refer http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Flash/The-Power-of-LoadVars-Object/

no... it also tells about sending data to flash from server...