Connecting to ODBC Socket Use the settings beloq to connect ColdFusion MX to ODBC Socket data sources (this is a Type 3 driver): CF Data Source Name: The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion MX to connect to the data source. ODBC DSN: Select the ODBC DSN to which you want ColdFusion MX to connect. Trusted Connection: Specifies whether to use domain user account access to the database. Only valid for SQL Server. Username:The user name that ColdFusion MX passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a user name (for example, in a cfquery tag). Password:The password that ColdFusion MX passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a password (for example, in a cfquery tag). Description: (Optional) A description for this connection. Connection String: A field that passes database-specific parameters, such as login credentials, to the data source. Return Timestamp as String: Enable this option if your application retrieves Date/Time data and then re-uses it in SQL statements without applying formatting (using functions such as DateFormat, TimeFormat, and CreateODBCDateTime). Limit Connections: Specifies whether ColdFusion MX limits the number of database connections for the data source. If you enable this option, use the Restrict Connections To field to specify the maximum. Restrict Connections To: Specifies the maximum number of database connections for the data source. To use this restriction, you must enable the Limit Connections option. Maintain Connections: ColdFusion MX establishes a connection to a data source for every operation that requires one. Enable this option to improve performance by caching the data source connection. Timeout (min): The number of minutes that ColdFusion MX maintains an unused connection before destroying it. Interval (min): The time (in minutes) that the server waits between cycles to check for expired data source connections to close. Disable Connections: If selected, suspends all client connections. Login Timeout (sec): The number of seconds before ColdFusion MX times out the data source connection login attempt. CLOB: Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in the database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the number of characters specified in the Long Text Buffer setting. BLOB: Select to return the entire contents of any BLOB/Image columns in the database for this data source. If not selected, ColdFusion MX retrieves the number of characters specified in the BLOB Buffer setting. LongText Buffer: The default buffer size; used if Enable Long Text Retrieval(CLOB) is not selected. The default value is 64000 bytes. BLOB Buffer: The default buffer size; used if the BLOB option is not selected. The default value is 64000 bytes. Allowed SQL: The SQL operations that can interact with the current data source.
If you are trying to connect to a database, use the built in drivers if they are available. The ODBC socket is not nearly as robust as the native drivers are.