Tom, what editor do you use? Nearly all of them (CF Studio, HomeSite+, Dreamweaver, and CFEclipse) offer the RDS feature, which would allow you to view all the tables and their columns for all datasources defined in your CF admin. These offer either a list of column names you can drag and drop (tedious for many) or a visual query builder where you can check the columns desired and then copy/paste from the SQL they build. If you've never used them, you're not alone. Many go years never seeing them. Let us know which you use if you need more help. To those who would jump in saying that you can't use RDS if it's not enabled, such as is likely on a production server, I'll reply that one shouldn't be doing development work against a production server. :-) Do your development locally, or at least just setup the free CF Dev edition locally and define your datasources there, and point to them in your editor to help build SQL. Or skip RDS and just use whatever SQL building tool that might come with the DBMS you're using. Many of them have visual query building tools as well, where again you can build a SQL statement and then copy/paste it into your CFML. Hope that's helpful, Tom. PS Did you know that there's a Tom McKeon in the CF world? He's in upstate New York here in the States. Small world. (For those missing the point, this note was from Tom "MacKean".) PPS With all these folks saying, "I'm a SELECT * user", it's starting to sound like a rehab meeting. "Hi, I'm Tom, and I'm a Select * user." :-) /Charlie http://www.carehart.org/blog/
_____ From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom MacKean Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 7:48 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Why select * is bad (was RE: [cfaussie] Re: @#$!! Queryparam) I am a SELECT * user. (In my defence, I'm self-taught and didn't know any better until now) My question... is there a trick or tip or tool that you guys use to save typing in the name of every field that you're after? If you're populating a big long form, it's a real pain to type every field name into your SELECT statement (when you could just use a *). Is there a quick way, or do you guys just bite the bullet and start typing? Cheers, Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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