Connecting To Visual Foxpro Databases - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual

Connecting to Visual FoxPro Databases

Connecting to Visual FoxPro Databases

On Windows, ColdFusion lets you access Microsoft Visual FoxPro databases using
ODBC or OLE DB. For information about using OLE DB with ColdFusion data
sources, see "About OLE DB" on page 4.
The following table describes ColdFusion ODBC options for Visual FoxPro data
sources. You set these options when you configure a ColdFusion data source.
Option
Data Source Name
Description
Database Info
Driver Settings
Description
A name for your ODBC data source.
A short description of the data source.
Path The name, including the full path, of the
database to which you want to connect.
Visual FoxPro Database Connect to a Visual FoxPro
database (dbc file) and to all the tables and local views
in the database.
Free Table Directory Connect to a directory of free
tables, that is, tables not associated with any particular
dbc file.
Collating Sequence Select the collating sequence
that you want to use. The collating sequence determines
the sequence in which the fields sort.
Exclusive Select this check box so that the driver
opens the Visual FoxPro database exclusively when you
access data using this data source. Other users cannot
access the database or the tables in the database while
the database is opened exclusively. Tables within the
exclusively opened database are opened as shared.
This option is not valid when you select the Free Table
Directory option.
Fetch data in background Select this check box to
fetch records in the background (progressive fetching).
Otherwise, ColdFusion waits until all records in the
result set are fetched.
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