Adobe ColdFusion 8

cfdbinfo

Description

Lets you retrieve information about a data source, including details about the database, tables, queries, procedures, foreign keys, indexes, and version information about the database, driver, and JDBC.

Category

Database manipulation tags

Syntax

<cfdbinfo
    datasource="data source name"
    name="result name"
    type="dbnames|tables|columns|version|procedures|foreignkeys|index"
    dbname="database name"
    password="password"
    pattern="filter pattern"
    table="table name"
    username="username">

Note: You can specify this tag's attributes in an attributeCollection attribute whose value is a structure. Specify the structure name in the attributeCollection attribute and use the tag's attribute names as structure keys.

See also

cfinsert, cfprocparam, cfprocresult, cfqueryparam, cfstoredproc, cftransaction, cfupdate; "Optimizing database use" 37 in the ColdFusion Developer's Guide.

History

ColdFusion 8: Added this tag.

Attributes

Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

datasource

Required

 

Datasource to use to connect to the database.

name

Required

 

Name to use to refer to the result.

type

Required

 

Type of information to get:

  • dbnames: database name and type
  • tables: name, type, and remarks
  • columns: name, SQL data type, size, decimal precision, default value, maximum length in bytes of a character or integer data type column, whether nulls are allowed, ordinal position, remarks, whether the column is a primary key, whether the column is a foreign key, the table that the foreign key refers to, the key name the foreign key refers to
  • version: database product name and version, driver name and version, JDBC major and minor version
  • procedures: name, type, and remarks
  • foreignkeys: foreign key name and table, primary key name, delete and update rules
  • index: name, column on which the index is applied, ordinal position, cardinality, whether the row represents a table statistic or an index, number of pages used by the table or index, whether the index values are unique

dbname

Optional

 

Name of the database. Used only if the action = "This overrides the one mentioned as a part of datasource definition."

password

Optional

 

Password to connect to the database.

pattern

Optional

 

Used only if type = "tables", type = "columns", or type = "procedures". Specifies a filter to retrieve information about specific tables, columns, or stored procedures. Use an underline (_) to represent a single wildcard character and a percent sign (%) to represent a wildcard of zero or more characters.

table

Required if type = "columns" or type = "foreignkeys" or type = "index"

 

Name of the table from which you retrieve information.

username

Optional

no

User name to connect to the database.

Usage

Use the cfdbinfo tag to return a query object that contains information about a database. The query object varies, depending on the value that you specify in the type attribute. The following table lists the query object contents for each type:

Type

Column name

Description

dbnames

DATABASE_NAME

Name of the database.

TYPE

Type of the database, whether schema or catalog.

tables

TABLE_NAME

Name of the table.

TABLE_TYPE

Type of the table, including view, table, synonym, and system table.

REMARKS

Remarks of the table.

columns

COLUMN_NAME

Name of the column.

TYPE_NAME

SQL data type of the column.

IS_NULLABLE

Whether the column allows nulls.

IS_PRIMARYKEY

Whether the column is a primary key.

IS_FOREIGNKEY

Whether the column is a foreign key.

REFERENCED_PRIMARYKEY

If the column is a foreign key, the name of the table it refers to.

REFERENCED_PRIMARYKEY_TABLE

If the column is a foreign key, the key name it refers to.

COLUMN_SIZE

Size of the column

DECIMAL_DIGITS

Number of digits to the right of the decimal point.

COLUMN_DEFAULT_VALUE

Default value of column.

CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH

Maximum length in bytes of a character or integer data type column.

ORDINAL_POSITION

Ordinal position of the column.

REMARKS

Remarks of the column.

version

DATABASE_VERSION

Version of the database management system.

DATABASE_PRODUCTNAME

Name of the database management system.

DRIVER_VERSION

Version of the database driver.

DRIVER_NAME

Name of the database driver.

JDBC_MAJOR_VERSION

Major version number of the driver.

JDBC_MINOR_VERSION

Minor version number of the driver.

procedures

PROCEDURE_NAME

Name of the stored procedure.

REMARKS

Remarks for the stored procedure.

PROCEDURE_TYPE

Procedure type, which indicates whether the procedure returns a result.

foreignkeys

FKCOLUMN_NAME

Foreign key name.

FKTABLE_NAME

Foreign key table name.

PKCOLUMN_NAME

Primary key name.

DELETE_RULE

Specifies what action to take when you delete a record that has dependent records.

UPDATE_RULE

Specifies what action to take when you update a record that has dependent records.

index

INDEX_NAME

Name of the index, empty if type is table statistic.

COLUMN_NAME

Name of the column on which the index is applied, empty if the type is table statistic.

ORDINAL_POSITION

Ordinal position.

CARDINALITY

Number of unique values if the type is index, or number of rows if the type is statistic

TYPE

Whether the row represents a table statistic or an index. Index types are clustered, hashed, or other.

PAGES

Number of pages used by the table if the type is table statistic, or the number of pages used by the index.

NON_UNIQUE

Whether the index values are unique.

Example

<cfset datasrc = "oratest">

<cfdbinfo 
    type="dbnames"
    datasource="#datasrc#"
    name="dbdata">

<cfoutput>
The #datasrc# data source has the following databases:<br />
</cfoutput>
<table border="1">
<tr>
    <th valign="top" align="left">Database name</th><th>Type</th>
</tr>
    <cfoutput query="dbdata">
    <tr>
        <td>#dbdata.DATABASE_NAME#</td><td>#dbdata.TYPE#</td>
    </tr>
    </cfoutput>
</table>