RDS is great 'cause it provides real in-place editing. With all other technologies, you have download/change/upload concept (although it can be hidden by the IDE). With RDS, it's pretty much always in-place editing so changes are immediately seen by others and via the CF server.
I loved the run-time debugger in CF5. It's a major loss that it doesn't work in CFMX. I don't know if MM would bring it back 'cause DWMX doesn't support it so they'd need major changes to DWMX to support run-time debugging (and no, these changes are not present in DWMX 2004). For DB access RDS is nice 'cause you have access to all the same datasources that the CF server has. You don't need connection information and you don't need to open the database port up on the firewall. It also goes through whatever security restrictions are set on the datasource. That said, we recently dropped support for RDS on our system setup, switching to CVS and SQL+. I still use it almost daily to access my home servers and blog server though. Sam ---------------------------------------------- Blog: http://www.rewindlife.com Chart: http://www.blinex.com/products/charting ---------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:54 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Cracking the RDS protocol? > > > Yes, people still use RDS. DWMX doesn't talk to CFMX through web > > services - > > to use a lot of the functionality of DWMX with CF, like the > recordset > > builder, I'm pretty sure you need to use RDS. > > > Is building queries the only thing people use RDS for or is > there other > things as well? Why would one use RDS as opposed to an interface > provided by their RDBMS? Just curious as I really don't know since I > don't use RDS. I tried making use of it in Studio a long time ago and > found it lacking. > > Matt Liotta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
