There is a decent chance that the admin api functionality gives you access to the same thing that happens when you click the "verify data source" icon in CF Admin. I've never looked, but I am curious now. Of course, if that worked, it would probably just tell you that a database engine was listening on that server and port, but it wouldn't give you any application aware information like are the database objects there, or is replication up-to-date etc.
~Brad -----Original Message----- From: Rob O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Testing Database Connection within Application I've done my searching online, throughout several groups, and now I turn to you guys. I've been having trouble figuring out how to detect, from within my ColdFusion application, whether or not my database connection is valid. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
