Locking in ColdFusion - Coldfusion tutorial

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A simple coldfusion tutorial which explains how to query a database using coldfusion. Querying a database in coldfusion is similar to other programming languages. The query is usually placed at the top of the page, or before where it is used. The query is as below with an opening tag with the name of the query and the datasource that you are querying. Between the opening and closing tags you insert your sql code.

This article will examine coding best practices for writing maintainable code, including consistent variable naming conventions, code structure, and comments.

Content on the web often has a shelf life. You may have information that you want up after a certain point in time or you may want it to be gone after a certain time.You may want to have it appear and disappear without having to be editing files or changing out input in some back end system. You will find that you can build a simple system for publishing and removing info with ColdFusion's CFIF tag and CreateDateTime() and Now() functions.

This guide will teach you how to select a random record from a table.

Leveraging ColdFusion 5's bundled Verity K2 Server for use in a clustered server