thanks for all your replies, there is so many places i could use this. i have always been doing a lot of processing with cf (loops, formatting, etc...) and after recently looking into why the performance issues are not so great i am starting to see that mysql and cfquery can be used for most of the processing and speeding things up loads
thanks again for your help, i see i still have a lot to learn :) > hi > > i have an array of subjectId's. i have a table in my database called > subjects with the primary key set as subjectID > > i have 2 other columns called first name and last name. > > i want to be able to get the first names and last names only for the > subjects ids stored in my array > > is there a way in mysql or coldfusion to do this without the need of a > loop > > or is the only way to loop through the array of subject ids getting > each first name and last name one at a time > > thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:303975 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
