Ted, Your best bet is to get a great book to help you get through the crawl phase and into the walk phase. The following two books are good starters: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078971809X/ref=pd_sim_books/002-93578 99-3812848 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782127738/002-9357899-3812848 They should spawn all sorts of answers to your questions. Those questions unanswered by the books should be forwarded back to us, naturally. :) HTH, -joshua ----- Original Message ----- From: ted serbinski <tss24 at cornell.edu> Subject: [thelist] Help with SQL/CF > Ok I've finally decided to dive into the backend of web development, but > I have a few questions. For starters, I'm using Windows XP, with SQL > 2000, and Cold Fusion 4.5 installed.