If you aren't using any kind of returned data from a query, don't worry about giving the cfquery tag a name attribute. It's a few extra bytes you can save on your fingers. I would even go so far as to recommend you delete it. Less code means less bugs.
nathan strutz [http://www.dopefly.com/] [http://hi.im/nathanstrutz] On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Dain Anderson <da...@terradotta.com> wrote: > > I may have missed conversation of this over the years, so I figured I would > ask. > > What's the current "take" on this (old?) practice? If I have a CFC function > that deletes a record, and that CFC contains a single query, do you find it > necessary to scope that query with a name? > > <cffunction name="DeleteMe"> > <cfset var q = "" /> > <cfquery datasource="#variables.ds#" name="q"> > delete mah stuff... > </cfquery> > </cffunction> > > I've been refactoring some CFCs and ran into some named deletions and > thought this seemed odd to name them -- thoughts? > > -Dain > > > *Dain M. Anderson > *Lead Developer > Terra Dotta, LLC > 501 W. Franklin Street, Suite 105 > Chapel Hill, NC 27516 > Phone/Fax: 877-DOTTA-77 (877-368-8277) > http://TerraDotta.com <http://terradotta. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:343036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
