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We have a large content management application used by retailers to manage
their website content and website storefront. The application uses ColdFusion
7.02, MSSQL Server 2000 and IIS.  We have a load balanced environment with 5
webservers.  The application has over 10,000 ...

I have a database column using SQL 2005's XML datatype.
When I do a select statement using CFQUERY, I am only returned the first
32,000 characters of the XML file, even though the file in the data column is
almonst 60,000 characters.

I would like to use the DatePart function in my cfquery select statement and I
am having issues.  I would like to select on the EVENT_SORT_DATE for the month
and day only not the year.  Also this is CF with Oracle DB.  I tried many
different ways unsuccessfully.  Thanks!

I am thinking about building a CF Flash based site.  I have been testing and
reading posts on the net.  Seems that a production grade site will require
ActionScript, lots of it.
Should I be looking at ActionScript books or CF books?

I do not know exactly where to post this. I know my website has cold fusion so
I'll try here. I use MacBook. My website was developed by a PC guy. At first
all was well when I would use Safari as a browser. Then after I did an update
of Safari all but my main, Home Page, will not ...

I'm trying to insert some simple data into a cookie using a form. On my index
page there is a simple drop down menu. When the user chooses one and presses go
i want to be able to right their choice into the cookie via an action page.
To recall the choice they made i have Form ...

I need to enter a few  formatted paragraphs  into a textarea field and submit
it to a database for output later.
The problem I have is when I output the data from the db it loses all of the
formatting (bold,styles etc..) AND I lose my paragraphs & breaks etc.

When using CFGridUpdate, I get this exception:
Error casting an object of type to an incompatible type. This usually
indicates a programming error in Java, although it could also mean you have
tried to use a foreign object in a different way than it was designed.

When my hosting sql connection goes down, my pages display an error showing my
database connection.  How can I approach my error page or customize it so that
each time my hosting have issue, my database connection does not goes public.

Hi everyone.  I'm hoping someone can help me work through this problem I'm
having outputting data to multiple columns.  I'm creating a photo gallery and I
would like my table to look something like this: empty td, td with photo, empty
td, td with photo, new row below those td's ...

I'm using CF8 (although I had this problem in CF7 as well). I have the only
hotfix installed.
When I use CFDocument, the header and footer are smaller in scale than the
body.

My goal is to link to another frame/window from a chart and I need Javascript
to achieve this (no TARGET attribute available in CFCHART).
When $ITEMLABEL$ variable contains an apostrophe it obviously generates a
javascript error since the value needs to be escaped with ...

Okay new problem..
I am trying to set up the website locally on my computer and I have Cold
Fusion 8 installed and it appears to be working fine.    I am getting this
error in the client's website at: http://127.0.0.1/accelerator/.   The files

I have the following update query :
<cfquery name="qryUpdate_table" datasource="ds_name">
update table
set user_status = '#form.user_status#'