ARTICLES & TUTORIALS FOR COLDFUSION DEVELOPMENT: A Collection of Links to Coldfusion Database Tutorials, including topics such as Connecting to the Database with Coldfusion MX, Building your Database, Groupings, Advanced Queries, etc.

Connecting to a Database with ColdFusion MX 7 - This article covers just a small portion of the instructor-led Fast Track to ColdFusion MX course offered by Macromedia Authorized Training partners. If you like what you see and want to get the full experience, find a Macromedia Authorized Training Partner near you.

Cold Fusion and Database - Cold Fusion provides a simple, powerful and flexible way of developing dynamic, database-driven web sites without the need for sophisticated programming." No, I didn't forget to run my spell checker. This quote comes from an Allaire website archive, back in the days when it was spelled "Cold Fusion."

Coldfusion Database / SQL Tutorials - Grouping Results
ColdFusion makes it easy to select data out of a database and display it on a page. Learn how with this tutorial.

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Building Your First Database Application with ColdFusion MX 7- In this six-part series, you'll learn how to build a database application with ColdFusion and Dreamweaver. To watch the tutorials before following along with the steps, download Macromedia Flash Player (in the Requirements section below). Otherwise, download and install all the software in the Requirements section so that you can watch and follow the steps within the tutorials. These demonstrations have been updated for ColdFusion MX

Test Scores in a Database and Exporting- In the following article, you will create a test using Captivate, tabulate the results, store them in a database by using Macromedia ColdFusion, and export them to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Creating a quiz in Captivate is a cinch, but if you don’t have a Learning Management System at your disposal, how do you know who passed or failed your test? Here’s how.

Building Advance Queries in Cold Fusion MX- This article teaches how to perform advanced queries and retrieve and organize data from a data source.

Coldfusion Databases / SQL Tutorials - Creating a Simple Guest Book - In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple guest book using Coldfusion and an MS Access database.

Controlling Database Transactions in ColdFusion MX- Many developers choose ColdFusion for web application development because it is easy to use and because CFML minimizes the complexity of common application coding activities. This allows developers to spend more time working on the more complex functionality in their applications.

Introduction to Coldfusion Data Structures – Queries - Queries are an important part of Web development, whether you're programming in ASP, JSP, PHP, or Coldfusion. Sometimes, they're referred to as result sets, record sets, or, in the case of Coldfusion, queries.

ColdFusion MySQL Database Manager
CFMyAdmin is a ColdFusion based MySQL Database Manager with a familiar Windows User Interface. Create, view, edit and delete your online databases, tables and data. Use the SQL Editor to run custom queries against your MySQL database. Allow clients to access their data at anytime, all from a familiar web-based user interface.

Coldfusion Databases/SQL Tutorials - Coldfusion and SQL Server - An overview of using ColdFusion for Web development on the SQL Server platform

Porting Pollster to SQL Server- One of the most popular widgets in Macromedia's DevNet Resource Kit Volume 4 (DRK 4) is Pollster. This tutorial includes everything you need to migrate Pollster to SQL Server, including a SQL script and instructions on revising the application's ColdFusion components

Query of Queries - a query that retrieves data from a record set is called a Query of Queries. After you generate a record set, you can interact with its results as if they were database tables by using Query of Queries.

Random Queries (recordsets) For ASP, ColdFusion and PHP
This article will discuss how you can use ASP VBScript with Access and MS SQL Server; PHP with MySQL; and ColdFusion with Access, MS SQL Server and MySQL to generate random results, be it a single random banner from your advertisers, or five random products that are currently on sale

Coldfusion Databases/SQL Tutorials - Having Your Database Do The Work… not ColdFusion! - This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use the functions that come built in on your database to do the work, instead of doing the work in your code the hard way!

Advanced Coldfusion Database Integration
Welcome to the final chapter of this article. If you have come this far you should have a firm grasp of how to use Cold Fusion to make a dynamic site. In this part I will cover code you would find inside the <CFQUERY> tags, and more advanced SQL.

Beyond ColdFusion Query Basics- Queries are an important part of nearly every ColdFusion application. In this article, learn how to create more efficient queries by using built-in ColdFusion features, such as query caching and queries of querie

Building a query that uses dynamic SQL- Dynamic SQL is a term that refers to SQL code that your program generates using variables before the SQL is executed. You can use dynamic SQL to accomplish tasks such as adding WHERE clauses to a search based on the fields that the user filled out on a search criteria page

Creating Better Search Functionality with ColdFusion MX- Document indexing and searching has always been one of the hidden gems in ColdFusion. . With this upgrade, ColdFusion MX 7 takes advantage of the latest document filters, features, and capabilities of the best-of-breed Verity technology.