[thelist] SQL Server and Cold Fusion (fwd)

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Jun 2 18:00:03 CDT 2001


Michael Roberto wrote on 2/6/01 11:53 pm

>You bet!  First, I'm going to make the assumption that both machines are
>Windows(NT/2000) but even if they're not, this is how the setup works.
>
>On your web server(Running Cold Fusion) in the CF Administrator control
>panel, when you add your ODBC or OLE DB datasource you will need to tell
>CF what type of database you're connecting to and where that datasource
>is located.  

And of course, that *can* be pretty much anywhere. If CF couldn't
talk to a db on a separate box, it'd be a pretty large embarrassment
as you're not going to get any kind of sensible performance under
load if the web server, CF server and db are all running on the
same production box.

Cheers
Martin

_______________________________________________
email: martin at easyweb.co.uk             PGP ID: 0xA835CCCB
       martin at members.evolt.org      snailmail: 30 Shandon Place
  tel: +44 (0)778 068 6418                      Edinburgh,
  url: http://www.easyweb.co.uk                 Scotland





More information about the thelist mailing list