Summary

For your first Web application, a hypothetical client asked you to build a site around an existing database. You first examined the database to familiarize yourself with its structure, and to ensure that field and table names were ColdFusion compatible.

In building the application, you first defined and verified the client's database as a datasource. You then created a folder on your Webserver to house the template files, sharing it and enabling executable access.

From your client's description, you envisioned the site as a single-level drill-down application. You created two templates to handle the data: the first templates briefly lists all records in the database and the second provides a more detailed look at a single record. You ...

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