Are you able to craft a query that will return the results you need without ColdFusion having to do any extra parsing of it? That is the first thing I would try. In your brief example it seems like that would be solved using a GROUP BY statement in the query.
-Mike Chabot On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:23 PM, GLM <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a database with presidents, governors, etc. and need to be able to > pull out information such as: > > > > Get the number of all female governors over the years and spit out something > on the order of: > > > > 1789 : 0 > > 1790 : 0 > > . > > 2005 : 10 > > . > > 2010 : 6 > > > > The database has dateStarted, dateEnded > > > > I can loop through this [SIMPLIFIED CODE] > > > > <cfloop> > > <cfquery> > > SELECT > > FROM > > WHERE year == #desiredYear# > > > > </cfquery> > > </cfloop> > > > > This seems like a foolish way to do this. Is there a better way to do it? Is > it better to make one query and then use CF to parse it > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337524 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
