Connecting to ODBC Socket

Use the settings in the following table to connect ColdFusion MX to ODBC Socket data sources (this is a Type 3 driver):

Setting

Description

CF Data Source Name

The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion MX to connect to the data source.

ODBC DSN

Select the ODBC DSN to which you want ColdFusion MX to connect.

Trusted Connection

Specifies whether to use domain user account access to the database. Only valid for SQL Server.

Username

The user name that ColdFusion MX passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a user name (for example, in a cfquery tag).

Password

The password that ColdFusion MX passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a password (for example, in a cfquery tag).

Description

(Optional) A description for this connection.

Connection String

A field that passes database-specific parameters, such as login credentials, to the data source.

Return Timestamp as String

Enable this option if your application retrieves Date/Time data and then re-uses it in SQL statements without applying formatting (using functions such as DateFormat, TimeFormat, and CreateODBCDateTime).

Limit Connections

Specifies whether ColdFusion MX limits the number of database connections for the data source. If you enable this option, use the Restrict Connections To field to specify the maximum.

Restrict Connections To

Specifies the maximum number of database connections for the data source. To use this restriction, you must enable the Limit Connections option.

Maintain Connections

ColdFusion MX establishes a connection to a data source for every operation that requires one. Enable this option to improve performance by caching the data source connection.

Timeout (min)

The number of minutes that ColdFusion MX maintains an unused connection before destroying it.

Interval (min)

The time (in minutes) that the server waits between cycles to check for expired data source connections to close.

Disable Connections

If selected, suspends all client connections.

Login Timeout (sec)

The number of seconds before ColdFusion MX times out the data source connection login attempt.

CLOB

Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in the database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the number of characters specified in the Long Text Buffer setting.

BLOB

Select to return the entire contents of any BLOB/Image columns in the database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the number of characters specified in the BLOB Buffer setting.

LongText Buffer

The default buffer size; used if Enable Long Text Retrieval(CLOB) is not selected. The default value is 64000 bytes.

BLOB Buffer

The default buffer size; used if the BLOB option is not selected. The default value is 64000 bytes.

Allowed SQL

The SQL operations that can interact with the current data source.