Database issue MS SQL vs. ?

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May 27th, 2004, 01:04 PM

benb477

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Database issue MS SQL vs. ?

The city I work for recently was presented with a CF solution for a portal system. The webmanager wants to developer the entire system in house using CF. The sales person that gave the presentation told our staff that CF will only work with MS SQL. Is this true? We are an Oracle shop now, don't want to use MS if we don't have too.

Any insight would be appreciated.

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May 27th, 2004, 02:25 PM

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Absolutely false. ColdFusion (especially CFMX) will work with virtually any database or data provider that you can imagine. Since CFMX is based on Java, it can connect to anything that JDBC can connect to, which is basically anything.

In addition to MS SQL Server, a few of the databases that CF can connect to include Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2, MySQL, Postgre SQL, Access, and even to Excel and text files.

Edit: Also, please be sure that someone tells that salesperson that they have no idea what they are talking about.

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