Q&A
| Q1: | What other programs use ODBC? What are the advantages of these programs? |
| A1: | ColdFusion is only one example of an ODBC-compatible application. Others include word processors, spreadsheet programs, address books, and mail programs. The advantages these programs have over their non-ODBC counterparts is that, as with ColdFusion, you can use them to generate documents from a database. For example, consider a mail program: With ODBC, you can link your mailer to a database and create an instant form mail to every name and address listed in a table. |
| Q2: | Where are ColdFusion template files stored on my Web server? |
| A2: | Older versions of CF required you to define a directory to hold your template files, but from version 3.0 on, you could place them ... |
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