Chapter 5
Building Pages that Retrieve Data

This chapter describes how to retrieve data from a database, work with query data, and enable debugging in ColdFusion applications. During chapter practices, you will learn how to use the ColdFusion Administrator to set up a data source and enable debugging, use the CFQUERY tag to query a data source, and use the CFOUTPUT tag to output the query results to a Web page.

Contents

• Publishing Dynamic Data
• Understanding Data Sources
• Data Source Notes and Considerations
• Retrieving Data
• Using the CFQUERY Tag
• Writing SQL
• Building Queries
• Building Dynamic SQL Statements
• Query Notes and Considerations
• CFQUERY Variable Information
• Debugging Application Pages
• Outputting Query Data
• Using CFOUTPUT to Output Query Data
• Query Output Notes and Considerations
• Development Considerations

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