Avoid Evaluate() in ColdFusion because its slower

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Recently I have come to realize that the evaluate() function in coldfusion can be slow.  So the best this to do to avoid this is to evaluate it as a struct variable. For example, if you have 3 form variables with counter numbers, and you want to loop through them and pull the data from… Read more »

Get an ID of record after a SQL insert using ColdFusion

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When you want to get an ID field of a record that was just inserted, you have to use the code below in ColdFusion.  First you "SET NOCOUNT ON" and process your insert statement.  After the insert, use a select statement like the following "SELECT @@IDENTITY AS varname".  After this you can "SET NOCOUNT OFF". … Read more »

ColdFusion Verity Document Search Limit

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Okay, so I don’t know how relevant this question really is, but I have been questioning something about Verity in ColdFusion.  For you noobs out there, verity is a search server that comes as part of the package, you have the ability to not install the search server on setup though.  Basically, verity indexes data,… Read more »