HTP-database pull

<table width="90%" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#FFFFFF">
  <tr bgcolor="#004AC6" class="bod">
    <td width="10%">
      <div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Job #</font></strong></div></td>
    <td width="40%">
      <div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Job Summary</font></strong></div></td>
    <td width="35%">
      <div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Key Skills</font></strong></div></td>
    <td width="5%">
      <div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Location</font></strong></div></td>
    <td width="10%">
      <div align="center"><strong><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Status</font></strong></div></td>
  </tr>

  <?php
        $host = "localhost";
        $username = "hightech_sudhir"; //* use the database name given by Linksky
        $password = "vsudhir"; //* use the database password given by Linksky
        $dbname = "hightech_hightechprosjobs"; //* the name given by Linksky

        @ $db = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);
        if (!$db)
        {
                echo "Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later.";
                exit;
        }
        mysql_select_db($dbname);

        /* Performing SQL query */
        $query = "SELECT * FROM jobs where Activated = 'Yes' order by JobID desc;";
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed : " . mysql_error());

         /* Printing results in HTML */
        $num_results = mysql_num_rows($result);

        for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++)
        {
                $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
                $jobid = stripslashes($row["JobID"]);
                echo "<tr bgcolor='#EEEFF4'>";
                echo "<td align='center' width='10%'><font size='2' face='verdana'>".$jobid. "</font></td>";
                echo "<td valign='top' width='40%'><font size='2' face='verdana' class='sud'><a href='viewJob.php?jobid=".$jobid ."'><strong>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row["JobTitle"]))."</strong></a></font><br>";
                echo "<font size='1' style='verdana'>".substr(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row["Description"])),0,105)."...</font></td>";
                echo "<td valign='top' width='32%'><font size='1' face='verdana'>" .htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row["KeySkills"])). "</td>";
                echo "<td valign='top' width='8%'><font size='1' face='verdana'>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row["Location"]))."</td>";
                echo "<td valign='top' width='10%'><font size='1' face='verdana'>".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row["Status"]))."</td></tr>";
        }
        print "</table>\n";
        mysql_close($db);
?>

</table>