[cfaussie] Re: ot: db architecture question

2006-07-06 Thread grant
ok thanks guys - i resent the impilication it's a dailywtf though scott! anyway, you've basically clarified the issue for me. I am now armed to go back to my boss and say, we can do it this way... as for passing in parameters, yes you can query against a view with parameters (as per dale's

[cfaussie] Re: Running CF on Apache and IIS

2006-07-06 Thread Carl Vanderpal
Jeremy, you can try vmware.com they have a virtual workstation for dev's, that can allow you to run any combo of things...just set it in it's own sandbox and you're away...eg. I read (can't remember where), but this guy set up many different combos on his server to replicate his clients

[cfaussie] Re: creating .doc files in Coldfusion

2006-07-06 Thread Nathan Drury
Using COM does require a licensed copy of Office on the server. However, even Microsoft doesn't recommend using Office on the server! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757/en/ In a past life I used COM extensively with CF5 and it was very unreliable and quite slow. I can't imagine it would be

[cfaussie] Re: Running CF on Apache and IIS

2006-07-06 Thread Lindsay Evans
On 6/30/06, cfgroupie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys,I know that you can't run both Apache and IIS together at the sametime(unless different ports) but I'm running cf multi-server and I wantto have the ability to turn off IIS and turn on Apache and visa-versa is there a way you can do this in

[cfaussie] Re: ot: db architecture question

2006-07-06 Thread Patrick Branley
To my understanding. (Please someone point out to me if they know of any special magic that SQL linked servers can do that other SQL Clients cannot)Using a 2nd SQL server instance with linked views to a 1st sql server is no more secure than having a data source directly to the 1st server. In terms

[cfaussie] Re: ot: db architecture question

2006-07-06 Thread Chad Renando
Interesting problem. No technical answers here, but a question to help clarify... By secure, do you mean confidentiality of the data or stability of the information? If it is confidentiality, then the security is tossed as soon as you extract the data into the view, regardless of where it came

[cfaussie] Re: Running CF on Apache and IIS

2006-07-06 Thread cfgroupie
Thanks guys, I use VMWare occasionaly. So I know what you mean there. I hadn't thought of different IP addresses but on an XP machine not sure if thats the case. thanks will look into it. Jeremy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are