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"Show Full Columns" problem with CFMX and MySQL solved

We've been performing some load testing on a new website we've developed and our helpful sysadmin noticed lots of queries happening on the DB that looked like this: SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM...

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MySQL and Temporary tables and CASE syntax

For some reason I've always avoided the use of temporary tables in SQL (MySQL or otherwise) but today I came across a difficult problem that temporary tables made very simple. I needed to use a case...

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Loading MySQL timezone info on Linux and Macs

MySQL has some really useful functions that make timezone support a bit easier as described in a previous blog post.. However, you need to do a tiny bit of setup work before you can use the functions....

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Identifying which queries to tune with MSSQL

I've been doing some more work tuning and CF/MSSQL application and during figuring out which parts of the system is doing the most work (and hence a good candidate for tuning) I came across this gem...

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MySQL 5.1 logging changes – Log to DB and runtime config

While browsing around the MySQL site last night I discovered a number of nice new features of mysql 5.1 that relate to logging. These are: Logging to DB instead of log files Runtime configuration of...

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Using AWS SimpleDB with Railo and Tomcat

I’ve been working with Amazon Webservices (AWS) and needed to connect to it from some of our railo servers. Getting Setup Here is some documentation for reference and to help others: 1. Get the SDK...

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Generate Railo DSN encrypted passwords

When dealing with scripted deployments to production environments it's often very worthwhile to be able to remove any dependencies on the GUI/Web interface and just edit the config files directly. For...

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Multiple queries with CFMX-MySQL JDBC connector

I found a little snippet the other day and included it in the tail end of a previous post – however, on reflection I thought it deserved a post of it's own. If you want to utilise multiple queries per...

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CF 7.0.2 Cumulative Hotfix 2 breaks MySQL Multiple Queries

I've just spent a while figuring out a painful bug in CF and am posting here so that I can reference it from the Adobe bug tracker as I can't explain the problem in 2000 characters. Summary of Problem...

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Protected: AWS RDS PHP connections hanging during failover

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