Session and Client Variables

2001-11-14 Thread John Barleycorn
Hi Folks, i'm prepping for the cf exam and i'm lacking a good understanding of the difference between client and session variables. It seems that they both are capable of doing the same thing. When and why should/would i use one or the other? What apps have you used client vars for and not

Unexpected query results

2001-09-30 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello everyone, i'm currently running a query that is returning some odd results. I'm trying to get the total number of sales in each category for a salesperson. The query i'm running is below. With the data i have right now i would expect to get back 4 for the total of sales per category for

SQL Question - SUM weirdness

2001-09-16 Thread John Barleycorn
Hi Folks, i'm using the query below to pull back the total quantity that a salesperson has sold for a desired month. For some reason the numbers for each item seem to be being doubled. Right now each sales person has two days of sales for the month with the first day having 2 sales in each

More Info - SQL Question - Sum Weirdness

2001-09-16 Thread John Barleycorn
Appologies, i left out some important info - the CF code. Below is the query output. i'm using cf's group by for the first time. so perhaps it's a lack of understanding of it's use that is causing the trouble. i'm grouping on the sales person's name because my query pulls back the total sales

Reg Exp help

2001-09-16 Thread John Barleycorn
Gang, given the date 8/8/2001, how would i use a regular expression to set the variables for month, day, and year. I know what i need to do, but i'm just not sure how to do it with a Reg Exp month: the number before the slash day: the number between two slashes year: the number after the last

Re: SQL Question - SUM weirdness

2001-09-16 Thread John Barleycorn
I-Lin, thank you for your observation. I tried to join the two, but i get a SQL error. i used: dn.user_id *= u.user_id (get all data for a user's id only if it exists in the dn table - is that right?) and i get the error: Query contains an outer-join request that is not permitted. I'm not

CF and Kiosks

2001-08-24 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, i've been asked to build a CF app for a kiosk. i was wondering if anyone could recommend a company to purchase the kiosk stand from and we would also need to use a touch screen for input. Can anyone recommend a source for a touch screen? Thanks. jb

cftransaction

2001-08-14 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, is there ever a reason to use cftransaction around a single query? I currently use it around queries that are dependant on each other, but another coder is using cftransaction around single queries. Just wondering if this is correct or just a waste. thanks.

Stored Proc Question

2001-08-13 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, i'm running a stored proc that contains two queries. if the first query runs and does not return records, i need to run the second query. Can anyone tell me the equivilent of recordCount in Transact-SQL? Thanks. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion

checking to see if file was written

2001-08-13 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello again, i'm currently building a process that runs a query, creates a file with that queries contents and then runs another query that makes changes to the database based on the success of the first query and the file that gets written. If the file is successfully written, i can update

keeping html out of the DB

2001-08-04 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, I have form that has a text field in it. if the user types in any html code or other code for that matter, i want to be able to remove it. i looked for a tag in the tag gallery, but i didn't find one. is there a built in fuction that isn't in the book that i can use? thanks for the

More RegEx Help

2001-07-27 Thread John Barleycorn
I seem to be having a problem searching for a space using RegEx. This is what i'm using: cfif REFindNoCase([[:Alpha:][:Punct:][ ]], myString) bad chars found /cfif but it doesn't find any of the chars i'm looking for if i include [ ]. If i remove that part, it finds what i'm looking for.

Regular Expression Help

2001-07-26 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, i'm having some trouble using regular expressions. i read the book and looked up examples, but unfortunately, i can't seem to solve my problem. i've written code that checks to see if there is either a letter or a punctuation mark in a string, but it's not returning results properly.

Re: Regular Expression Help

2001-07-26 Thread John Barleycorn
:]], myString, 1, True) cfif something.pos[1] cfoutput Characters found at position: #something.pos[1]#BR /cfoutput cfelse No alpha characters or punctuation found. /cfif Dain Anderson Caretaker, CF Comet http://www.cfcomet.com/ - Original Message - From: John Barleycorn [EMAIL PROTECTED

dynamic vars, error checking and values (sorry, long and complex)

2001-07-21 Thread John Barleycorn
hello, i've been working on this problem for a few days and i'm not having any luck solving it so i was hoping someone could help. i'm creating form fields from a query so i have dynamically created vars that are passed to my next page. on the next page the vars are checked and if there is an

strange error message

2001-07-18 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, i moved a template from a 4.0 server to a 4.5 server and now i get a very strange error message. Can anyone tell me why i'm getting this error? Thanks for the help. the code that generates an error: cfoutput query=categories cfset tempCategoryName = Replace(TRIM(category_nm), , ^,

gettting value from dynamically created variables

2001-07-17 Thread John Barleycorn
hello, i have a list of dynamically created text boxes that are named with a string that holds the value of id|name|dataType. on the next page i extract the id, name and dataType of each item using cfloop on the FIELDNAMES list and getToken on each part of the list extracted by the loop.

How to get records from this month and only this month

2001-07-08 Thread John Barleycorn
Hello, i need to pull records out of my database for one month and only that month (default current month, but can be any month). I've tried using: SELECT quantity_nb FROM tblDailyNumbers nb WHERE DateDIFF(mm, #CreateODBCDate(Now())#, getDate()) = 0 AND DateDIFF(yy, #CreateODBCDate(Now())#,