Scorpio Makes Obtaining Database And Table Info Easy

This is a feature first demonstrated in CT yesterday, a new tag in Scorpio named which does just that

May. 16, 2007 01:45 PM

This is a feature first demonstrated in CT yesterday, a new tag in Scorpio named <CFDBINFO> which does just that, it returns information about databases (and data sources, and tables, and columns, and stored procedures, and more). This first code snippet shows how to obtain a list of tables in a specified data source (using the default database):

To get column details you can do the following:

This would return a query containing column names, type, size, default values, whether it allows NULL values, key associations, and more.

As you can see, <CFDBINFO> accepts a TYPE attribute which tells it what information you want, and the following types are supported:

columns: Returns column details for a specific table.
dbnames: Returns the databases in a specified data source.
foreignkeys: Returns foreign key name information, including associated primary key, and delete and update rules.
index: Returns index specifics, including column details, page usage, and whether or not the index is unique.
procedures: Returns available stored procedures.
tables: Returns the names of tables within a specific database.
version: Returns database drive version details.

About Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Technical Evangelist. In that capacity he spends a considerable amount of time talking and writing about Adobe products (with an emphasis on ColdFusion and Flex), and providing feedback to help shape the future direction of the products. By the way, if you are not yet a ColdFusion user, you should be. It is an incredible product, and is truly deserving of all the praise it has been receiving. In a prior life he was a ColdFusion customer (he wrote one of the first large high visibility web sites using the product) and was so impressed he ended up working for the company that created it (Allaire). Ben is also the author of books on ColdFusion, SQL, Windows 2000, JSP, WAP, Regular Expressions, and more. Before joining Adobe (well, Allaire actually, and then Macromedia and Allaire merged, and then Adobe bought Macromedia) he helped found a company called Car.com which provides automotive services (buy a car, sell a car, etc) over the Web. Car.com (including Stoneage) is one of the largest automotive web sites out there, was written entirely in ColdFusion, and is now owned by Auto-By-Tel.

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Scorpio Makes Obtaining Database And Table Info Easy

C. Jason Wilson wrote: Does the <cfdbinfo> tag require access to the master database with rights to sys tables in order to function inside of Microsoft SQL Server?