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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 10
Data Source Management
Setting
Client Hostname
Client Username
Application Name
Prefix
Enable connection validation
Connecting to other data sources
Use the settings in the following table to connect ColdFusion 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
User name
Password
Description
Connection String
Limit Connections
Restrict Connections To
Maintain Connections
Timeout (min)
Interval (min)
Disable Connections
Login Timeout (sec)
CLOB
BLOB
Description
The host name from where the query is executed.
The user name if the user is logged in using the <cflogin> tag.
The application name specified in the application.cfc.
If specified, the value is prefixed with the application name specified in application.cfc.
Check if to validate the connection.
Description
The data source name (DSN) that ColdFusion uses 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 in the ColdFusion classpath.
(Optional) The name of the driver.
The user name that ColdFusion 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
The password that ColdFusion 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.
A field that passes database-specific parameters, such as login credentials, to the data source.
Specifies whether ColdFusion 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.
Specifies the maximum number of database connections for the data source. To use this restriction,
enable the Limit Connections option.
ColdFusion establishes a connection to a data source for every operation that requires one. Enable this
option to improve performance by caching the data source connection.
The number of minutes that ColdFusion MX maintains an unused connection before destroying it.
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 times out the attempt to log in to the data source
connection.
Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in the database for this data source. If not
selected, ColdFusion retrieves the number of characters 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 retrieves the number of characters specified in the BLOB Buffer setting.
Last updated 7/9/2012
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