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Databases can hold important information used on your Web site, such as a product catalog, news headlines, or event or client information. Using the information that is stored in a database is essential to keeping the content on your site fresh. And it's important to be able to retrieve that information quickly and easily. ColdFusion offers powerful tools that make the tasks of retrieving and outputting information from a database simple and easy. In this lesson, you'll work with a Microsoft Access database (although ColdFusion works equally well with enterprise-level products such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases). This database will contain fictional products for sale at thewirelessagent.com . You are going to use ColdFusion to retrieve and display the products from the database.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN In this lesson, you will:
APPROXIMATE TIME This lesson takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete. LESSON FILES Starting Files: Lesson5\Start\products.mdb Lesson5\Start\firstquery.cfm Lesson5\Start\dynamic1.cfm Lesson5\Start\dynamic2.cfm Completed Files: Lesson5\Complete\firstquery.cfm Lesson5\Complete\dynamic1.cfm Lesson5\Complete\dynamic2.cfm |
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