> > eh? > > > > Are you talking about the win2k/nt user manager? > > No. All the users have accounts under NT in the user manager. I was asking if I had to > duplicate those NT accounts in the MySQL-Front User-Manager for them to access > the database(s)? > OK - so you are talking about winnt user manager. Only if you want those user to be able to access the database directly and rather than through a CF application and would rather they didn't have access to the administrative or a central username and password.
The users in mySQL are for accessing the databases either via the command line, via ODBC or some kind of GUI. Giving users different access rights allows you to restrict what those users can and can't do and see in your db server. A simplified example of this is: I have 2 users for my applications. One user is a read only user and is the one used for outputting content from the DB into CF templates, where visitors to the site have no need to alter or insert any data. My second user is an admin user that can update and insert into the database for that application and is only used in the web admin for the application for that purpose. So if I have 4 applications and one database for each application, I have 8 users. 2 users per application and each pair of users can only see the database for its application and no other. > Also, > > I have a question regarding MySQL-Front. When I modify my table properties to "text" > and "longtext" for certain fields when I do a query all I see is (MEMO) text yet if I > change them to VARCHAR(50) I see the text? > Select a table from your DB, select the data tab, then look down the bottom of mySQL Front. You'll see 3 tabs (SQL, BLOB-Editor, Filter) Select BLOB-Editor. You'll now see another 3 tabs (Text, Image, Hex), make sure text is selected. Now select a row from your table with a "memo" field, then click on the column and you'll see the text from the field in the box at the bottom. > My fields could contain 1000+ characters so that why I selected "longtext". Isn't VARCHAR for numbers? > RTFM on VARCHAR and longtext. (I'll bet that your users won't be inserting the best part of 43 million characters into the DB will they?) : http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Column_types.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
