James, If you'd like, I can test this tomorrow. I'm running CFMX 7 and instances of oracle 9i and 10g. I take it disabling can be accomplished programatically for times of database maintenance?
Matthew Williams Geodesic GraFX www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog James Holmes wrote: > Can other please confirm this: > > On CF7, datasources (at least for Oracle) ignore the the "disabled" > setting, allowing connections even when they are supposed to be > switched off. This was not a problem in CF6. > > This really makes maintenance a pain, since instead of throwing the > nice "datasource" disabled" error that a page can catch, the > connection just times out if the DB is undergoing maintenance (and > that takes forever). > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
