Skip to Main Content
Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
book

Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition

by Rob Brooks-Bilson
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1140 pages
68h 45m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4. Database Basics

Many people begin their relationship with ColdFusion out of a need to provide web-based access to data stored in a database. This might be as simple as wanting to output the contents of a single database table as an HTML table or as sophisticated as a multipage report generated from several related tables in a database. Whatever your requirements, the methods for querying the data from the database and outputting the results to a user’s web browser using ColdFusion remain the same.

ColdFusion doesn’t stop with allowing you to query data from a database. Using ColdFusion, you can perform a wide range of database operations including adding, updating, and deleting records; adding new columns to existing tables; and creating, altering, and dropping existing tables. In this chapter, we cover the basics you need to know in order to use ColdFusion to interact with a database. Included in the discussion are configuring data sources, an introduction to SQL, and techniques for retrieving and displaying data.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Programming ColdFusion

Programming ColdFusion

Rob Brooks-Bilson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596003803Supplemental ContentErrata Page