Connecting To Other Data Sources - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61 - CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION MX Manual

Setting
Interval (min)
Disable Connections
Login Timeout (sec)
CLOB
BLOB
LongText Buffer
BLOB Buffer
Allowed SQL

Connecting to other data sources

Use the settings in the following table to connect ColdFusion MX to data sources through JDBC
drivers that do not appear in the drop-down list of drivers:
Setting
CF Data Source Name
JDBC URL
Driver Class
Driver Name
Username
Password
Description
Limit Connections
Restrict Connections to Specifies the maximum number of database connections for the data
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Description
The time (in minutes) that the server waits between cycles to check for
expired data source connections to close.
If selected, suspends all client connections.
The number of seconds before ColdFusion MX times out the data source
connection login attempt.
Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in the
database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the
amount specified in the Long Text Buffer setting.
Select to return the entire contents of any BLOB/Image columns in the
database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the
amount specified in the Blob Buffer setting.
The default buffer size, used if Enable Long Text Retrieval(CLOB) is not
selected. Default is 64000 bytes.
The default buffer size, used if Enable binary large object retrieval (BLOB)
is not selected. Default is 64000 bytes.
The SQL operations that can interact with the current data source.
Description
The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion MX to connect to the
data source.
The JDBC Connection URL for this data source.
The fully qualified class name of the driver. For example,
com.inet.tds.TdsDriver. The JAR file that contains this class must be in a
directory defined to the ColdFusion classpath.
(Optional) The name of the driver.
The user name that ColdFusion MX passes to the JDBC driver to connect
to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a user name;
for example, in a
cfquery
The password (16-character limit) that ColdFusion MX passes to the
JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application
does not supply a password; for example, in a
(Optional) A description for this connection.
Specifies whether ColdFusion MX limits the number of database
connections for the data source. If you enable this option, use the Restrict
Connections to field to specify the maximum.
source. To use this restriction, you must enable Limit Connections.
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cfquery
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