Developing ColdFusion Applications

Chapter 3
Querying a Database

This chapter describes how to retrieve data from a database, work with query data, and enable debugging in ColdFusion applications. You will learn how to use the ColdFusion Administrator to set up a data source and enable debugging, use the cfquery tag to query a data source, and use the cfoutput tag to output the query results to a Web page.

Contents

• Publishing Dynamic Data
• Understanding Database Basics
• Understanding Data Sources
• Accessing Data Sources
• Retrieving Data
• Writing SQL
• Building Queries
• Outputting Query Data
• Getting Information About Query Results
• Using Query Results in Queries

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