Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Creating a Data Source

One of the most important uses of the ColdFusion Administrator is to create and define data sources, which are connections that ColdFusion uses to interact with a databases. Data sources are defined using the Data Sources menu option (it’s in the section labeled Data & Services).

We’ll be discussing data sources in detail in Chapter 6, “Introducing SQL,” so we’ll postpone creating the data source needed for our example applications until we get to that chapter.