Unless things have changed with mySQL you have to hand-create the tables. You'll also have to manually fire up the drivers and dsn as was described earlier.
I just went to my server and read out my table stru via SQLYog. Here it is. Note the myISAM table type. Note also the lack of a primary key in the cglobal table. These tables were brought in from a mySQL 4.x installation, and before that they were generated by CF automatically in another platform and then imported into mySQL. CREATE TABLE `cdata` ( `cfid` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', `app` varchar(64) NOT NULL, `data` longtext NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`cfid`,`app`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 CREATE TABLE `cglobal` ( `cfid` varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', `data` longtext NOT NULL, `lvisit` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, KEY `cfid` (`cfid`,`lvisit`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272608 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4