Intended Audience; New Features - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual

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Intended Audience

Advanced ColdFusion Administration is intended for anyone who needs to perform
ColdFusion server management tasks, such as configuring advanced security or
managing clustered servers.

New Features

The following table lists the new features in ColdFusion 5:
Benefit
Breakthrough
productivity
Powerful
business
intelligence
capabilities
Enhanced
performance
Feature
User-defined functions
Query of queries
Server analysis and
troublshooting
Charting engine
Enhanced Verity K2 full-text
search
Reporting interface for
Crystal Reports 8.0
Core engine tuning
Incremental page delivery
Wire protocol database
drivers
Description
Create reusable functions to
accelerate development.
Easily integrate data from
heterogeneous sources by
merging and querying data in
memory using standard SQL.
Quickly detect and diagnose
server errors with built-in server
reporting and the new Log File
Analyzer.
Create professional-quality charts
and graphs from queried data
without leaving the ColdFusion
environment.
Index and search up to 250,000
documents and enjoy greater
performance.
Create professional-quality
tabular reports from queried data
and applications.
Take advantage of dramatically
improved server performance and
reduced memory usage to deliver
faster, more scalable applications.
Improve response time by
delivering page output to users as
it is built.
Deliver high-performance ODBC
connectivity using new drivers.
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