I have an asp.net 2.0 web app that uses a sql server database. All is hosted on a sharing hosting account. I need a way to schedule my code to access the database every 5 minutes. Easiest way to do that would be to create a windows service, but this is impossible since I have a shared hosting and they will not allow me to install any windows services on their machines. Is there any other way to do that? Like a program inside SQL server or something?

If you can't schedule in server side because of permission, how about scheduling in your home or office PC?

Creating a ASP file in server, which access your SQL server, then create windows scheduler in your PC, which ping your ASP file every 5 mins.

This sounds dodgy but should work...