Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Think of validation like a pair of funnels (input/output) with business logic in the middle. Your data must pass through the funnel successfully on input before being put into the business logic. Data must be passed through a screen on output to ensure it doesn't contain any malicious met

RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Dan
28, 2006 12:48 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table   Thanks everyone for your help.  The response was quick and useful.  Nice to know there is some place I can turn for

re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10
Any reason to validate before the as some suggested or is it just personal preference vs doing in the SQL statement? ** Purely personal, I just like my SQL to look clean. If you have to do this for 30 fields, I'd write a quick function: and then call it like http://www.acfug.org

RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:06 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table   Jeff,   Here are 3 links to a 3-part tutorial in ColdFusion Developers

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Howard
Thanks everyone for your help.  The response was quick and useful.  Nice to know there is some place I can turn for help since I'm the only web-dev at my company.   This is pretty much what I came up with while waiting for a response.  I was hoping there was something I was over looking that didn

Re: re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Teddy Payne
Leave it to Allen to throw the emptry string solution.  *heh* I need to walk over there and throw soemthing at you.TeddyOn 9/28/06, Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try something like:if MyNewMoney EQ ""MyNewVal = "NULL"elseMyNewVal = #form.MyNewMoney#"UPDATE MyTableSE

re[2]: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Community] Quick (and hopefully simple) question about updating a SQL Server table

2006-09-28 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10
Try something like: if MyNewMoney EQ "" MyNewVal = "NULL" else MyNewVal = #form.MyNewMoney#" "Dean H. Saxe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This should go to the discussion list (and I redirected it there). I apologize, this is my first attempt at trying to ask a question to the ACFUG an