User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Administering ColdFusion MX 7
- Administering ColdFusion MX
- Using the ColdFusion MX Administrator
- Contents
- Initial administration tasks
- Accessing user assistance
- Server Settings section
- Data & Services section
- Debugging & Logging section
- Extensions section
- Event Gateways section
- Security section
- Packaging and Deployment section
- Enterprise Manager section
- Custom Extensions section
- Administrator API
- Data Source Management
- Contents
- About JDBC
- Adding data sources
- Connecting to DB2 Universal Database
- Connecting to Informix
- Connecting to Microsoft Access
- Connecting to Microsoft Access with Unicode
- Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server
- Connecting to MySQL
- Connecting to ODBC Socket
- Connecting to Oracle
- Connecting to other data sources
- Connecting to Sybase
- Connecting to JNDI data sources
- Web Server Management
- Deploying ColdFusion Applications
- Administering Security
- Using Multiple Server Instances
- Administering Verity
- Introducing Verity and Verity Tools
- Indexing Collections with Verity Spider
- Using Verity Utilities
- Contents
- Overview of Verity utilities
- Using the mkvdk utility
- Using the rck2 utility
- Using the rcvdk utility
- Using the didump utility
- Using the browse utility
- Using the merge utility
- Index
Connecting to Oracle 59
Connecting to Oracle
To see a list of Oracle versions that ColdFusion MX supports, go to
www.macromedia.com/go/sysreqscf. Use the settings in the following table to connect
ColdFusion MX to Oracle data sources:
Setting Description
CF Data Source Name The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion MX to connect to the
data source.
SID Name The Oracle System Identifier (SID) that refers to the instance of the Oracle
database software running on the server. The default value is
ORCL.
Server The name of the server that hosts the database that you want to use. If the
database is local, enclose the word local in parentheses.
Port The number of the TCP/IP port that the server monitors for connections.
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.
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.
Max Pooled Statements Enables reuse of prepared statements (that is, stored procedures and
queries that use the
cfqueryparam tag). Although you tune this setting
based on your application, start by setting it to the sum of the following:
• Unique
cfquery tags that use the cfqueryparam tag
• Unique
cfstoredproc tags
The default value is
300.
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.