Connecting To Data Sources; Viewing Data Sources - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION STUDIO 5-USING COLDFUSION 5 STUDIO Use Manual

Working with Data Sources

Connecting to data sources

Data sources that are registered in the ColdFusion Administrator are automatically
accessible from the Database tab in ColdFusion Studio. To access remote data
sources, you can add remote ColdFusion servers
To add a remote server:
1 At the bottom of the Resources window, click the Database tab.
This is how the tab looks:
2 In the top pane, select Add RDS Server from the drop-down list.
3 Enter information in the Configure RDS Server dialog box and click OK.
For information about configuring a RDS server, see
Remote Servers" on page

Viewing data sources

As soon as a
view it in ColdFusion Studio.
To open a data source:
1 In the Resources window, click the Database tab.
2 In the top pane, select a
Accessing a large database on a remote servers might take a few moments.
3 Expand the data source tree:
4 Double-click a table name.
The records in the table are displayed.
In the data browsing window you only can browse data. You cannot modify data or
add new records here. Also, views are available only in databases supporting the
creation of views or tables stored as queries.
To insert column or table names into a page:
Drag a table or column from the Database tab to the Editor, to the desired
position in your document.
This is a useful shortcut when you are building database reports.
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data source has been added in the ColdFusion Administrator, you can
server
To expand the tree, click the plus sign (+) next to a data source name
To view the database schema, click the plus sign (+) next to Tables
To view the column definitions, click the plus sign (+) next to a table name
(RDS servers).
"Working with Files on
from the drop-down list.
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