Railo Tag Reference

Tag <CFDBINFO>

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. This tag supports only JDBC drivers, and does not support ODBC-based drivers, including the Microsoft Access driver.

Body

This tag can't have a body.

Example

	<cfdbinfo
		[datasource="string"]
		[dbname="string"]
		[dbnames="string"]
		name="string"
		[password="string"]
		[pattern="string"]
		[procedure="string"]
		[table="string"]
		type="string"
		[username="string"]>

This tag is also supported within cfscript

	<cfscript>
		dbinfo
		[datasource="string"]
		[dbname="string"]
		[dbnames="string"]
		name="string"
		[password="string"]
		[pattern="string"]
		[procedure="string"]
		[table="string"]
		type="string"
		[username="string"];
	</cfscript>

Attributes

The attributes for this tag are fixed. Except for the following attributes no other attributes are allowed.

Name	Type	Required	Description
datasource	string	No	Datasource to use to connect to the database.
dbname	string	No	Name of the database
dbnames	string	No	Name of the database (alias for dbname)
name	string	Yes	Name to use to refer to the result.
password	string	No	Password to connect to the database.
pattern	string	No	Specifies a filter to retrieve information about specific tables, columns, or stored procedures
procedure	string	No	Name of the procedure from which you retrieve information.
table	string	No	Name of the table from which you retrieve information.
type	string	Yes	Type of information to get: dbnames: database name and type tables: information to all tables columns: column information to a single table/view version: version information of the database procedures: information to all procedures procedure_columns: column information to a single procedure foreignkeys: information to all foreignkeys index: information to all indexes ,tables,columns,version,procedures,foreignkeys,index,users
username	string	No	User name to connect to the database.