Pat Barbano

Recent Blog Comments By Pat Barbano

• Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jul 20, 2011 at 4:19 PM

  Thanks Ben, I was looking into a using a SAX parser, but this is solution works for me. I was able to parse a 7400 node XML file, build and populate a db schema in under 10 seconds using your method.... read more »

• Bidirectional Data Exchange With ColdFusion's CFThread Tag

  Posted on Sep 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM

  Long story short. I've built a web interface where users can run SQL queries against a very large db (over 12 billion records). In a nutshell it works like this. Request comes in. We run query against large db residing on a separate db server. We then use the query's results to populate a temp ta... read more »

• Bidirectional Data Exchange With ColdFusion's CFThread Tag

  Posted on Sep 3, 2010 at 12:29 AM

  Thanks for posting this example, Ben. I plan to put something like this to use. I want to spawn up a thread to insert several records (possibly 1000s) into a database incrementing a counter upon each insert. While this thread is running I plan to check the counter with a while loop and wait for s... read more »