Comments on: Wrangling QofQ Datatypes http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Better Living Through Introspection http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes/comment-page-1#comment-208 Better Living Through Introspection Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:27:47 +0000 http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes/#comment-208 <strong>Quote for the day</strong> It makes me nervous when computers “guess”.... Quote for the day

It makes me nervous when computers “guess”….

]]> By: brian http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes/comment-page-1#comment-194 brian Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:39:50 +0000 http://www.ghidinelli.com/2006/08/08/wrangling-qofq-datatypes/#comment-194 I just finished fixing my report system and I think queryNew(columnList) is 99% bad. If you're using queryNew() without specifying the column types (a second parameter supported in CFMX 7) and your data has blanks or NULLs in the data, you're almost guaranteed going to run into a problem. I'm going to start either using queryNew() with the new columnTypes parameter or doing a blank queryNew("") and then add each column independently using queryAddColumn(newQuery, "columnName", "VarChar", arrayNew(1)). This seems to be the only way to be confident that your datatypes will be straight. I just finished fixing my report system and I think queryNew(columnList) is 99% bad. If you’re using queryNew() without specifying the column types (a second parameter supported in CFMX 7) and your data has blanks or NULLs in the data, you’re almost guaranteed going to run into a problem.

I’m going to start either using queryNew() with the new columnTypes parameter or doing a blank queryNew(”") and then add each column independently using queryAddColumn(newQuery, “columnName”, “VarChar”, arrayNew(1)).

This seems to be the only way to be confident that your datatypes will be straight.

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