Data Source Management

A data source is a complete database configuration that uses a JDBC driver to communicate with a specific database. In Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7, you must configure a data source for each database that you want to use. After you configure a data source, ColdFusion can then communicate with that data source through JDBC.

This chapter describes the configuration options for ColdFusion MX 7 data sources. For basic information on data sources and connecting to databases, see Getting Started Building ColdFusion MX Applications.

Contents

About JDBC
Adding data sources
Connecting to DB2 Universal Database
Connecting to Informix
Connecting to Microsoft Access
Connecting to Microsoft Access with Unicode
Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server
Connecting to MySQL
Connecting to ODBC Socket
Connecting to Oracle
Connecting to other data sources
Connecting to Sybase
Connecting to JNDI data sources

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