Lesson 3: Retrieving Data

In this lesson, you begin the construction of a Macromedia ColdFusion web application for the fictitious company, Compass Travel. The exercises in this lesson introduce you to the process of retrieving data from the Compass Travel relational database.

This lesson contains the following exercises:

Exercise 1: About the trip list

Exercise 2: Retrieving the information for the trip list

Exercise 3: Displaying the query result using the cfoutput tag

Exercise 4: Writing structured, reusable code

Exercise 5: Creating additional queries