Best of Talk, Weekend of July 19 - 21, 2002

(CF-Talk) Copy Verity Collections

Something you may want to know if you often work on multiple boxes. Is it possible to index verity collections on a WIN2K box and then copy them to a Linux machine and use them? A clear and succinct answer.
Copy Verity Collections
Copy Verity Collections -- Correction

 

(CF-Talk) CF and NT or CF and 2000

Here we have a nice discussion of the relative benefits of upgrading from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 while at the same time upgrading from CF 5 to CFMX. What can be gained by upgrading the OS as well? Are there potential hazards here?
CF and NT or CF and 2000

 

(CF-Talk) Program Flow Question

An interesting problem involving the question of writing cookies to track a user while CFLOCATING the user to a new page. The problem is, cookies aren't written if a CFLOCATION is involved. But if you use JavaScript ...
Program Flow Question

 

(CF-Talk) Query Help

There's some nice, really useful code in this question about how to get group totals from a table without running a query for each group. It contains two alternative methods for getting the group totals in one query. The syntax is written for ACCESS 2000, but it's a study in efficient, lean code.
Query Help

 

(CF-Talk) (OT) Headers

Oh no! Michael has attempted a move from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000, and as a result has lost the mail headers for some of his email. How can he get this information back? (For those who are in the dark, mail headers "contain all of the posting information about a message, including a unique ID for it (message-id) and a reference to that unique ID if it is a reply (references, reference, reply-id, etc.))
(OT) Headers

 

(CF-Talk) DateDiff

The poster has a due_date field, and wishes to calculate the number of records that are two days out from their due date, 4 days out from their due date, etc. He wishes to use the DateDiff function. The best suggestion given was that he use some of his database's built-in date functions instead of ColdFusion.
DateDiff

 

(CF-Talk) Using UPPER with QofQ

Query of queries does not sort through a column of strings that are a mix of upper and lower case results, and will not allow the command UPPER to be used. Here is a simple workaround that will help you uppercase your query results in order to sort them, using Query of Queries.
Using UPPER with QofQ

 

(CF-Talk) Local Directory File Listing

The CFDIRECTORY tag is a good tool to use to get the contents of a local directory. A nice reminder and some basic information on this tag.
Local Directory File Listing

 

(CF-Talk) Consuming Amazon WebServices with CFMX.

Some important information about Amazon's new WebServices (available through SOAP) and how they interface with CFMX.
Consuming Amazon WebServices with CFMX.

 

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