MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION, Manual

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xiv About This Book
Intended Audience
Advanced ColdFusion Administration is intended for anyone who needs to perform
ColdFusion server management tasks, such as configuring advanced security or
managing clustered servers.
New Features
The following table lists the new features in ColdFusion 5:
Benefit Feature Description
Breakthrough
productivity User-defined functions Create reusable functions to
accelerate development.
Query of queries
Easily integrate data from
heterogeneous sources by
merging and querying data in
memory using standard SQL.
Server analysis and
troublshooting Quickly detect and diagnose
server errors with built-in server
reporting and the new Log File
Analyzer.
Powerful
business
intelligence
capabilities Charting engine Create professional-quality charts
and graphs from queried data
without leaving the ColdFusion
environment.
Enhanced Verity K2 full-text
search Index and search up to 250,000
documents and enjoy greater
performance.
Reporting interface for
Crystal Reports 8.0 Create professional-quality
tabular reports from queried data
and applications.
Enhanced
performance Core engine tuning Take advantage of dramatically
improved server performance and
reduced memory usage to deliver
faster, more scalable applications.
Incremental page delivery Improve response time by
delivering page output to users as
it is built.
Wire protocol database
drivers Deliver high-performance ODBC
connectivity using new drivers.