How do you query a SQL view

[brorobo]

Is it possible to query a MS SQL 2005 view directly from a web page instead of querying tables in a database?

Here is our server settings: ColdFusion MX
Version  7,0,2,142559
Edition  Enterprise (DevNet)
Operating System  Windows 2003
OS Version  5.2

The view is in the same database as the original tables.

If it is possible to do, how would one go about doing it?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

[Owainnorth]

Perhaps I misunderstand, but views are queried in exactly the same way tables are.

Explain "directly from a web page instead of querying tables in a database".

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A "view" is just a virtual table. So querying a "view" is no different than querying a physical table.

[brorobo]

My apologies, but I'm not very good on the database end of my knowledge base.

Basically, our database administrator set up a view for us that collects a lot of information from various tables. I need to output that information to a web page.

But the thing is, I may need to output it to multiple pages, and I didn't want to reproduce the query on multiple pages, just in case the view needs to change at some point in the future. So, I thought I would query the view. Kind of like using a cfinclude. Speaking of, I guess I can always put the actual query in a cfinclude file and call it where ever I need it, but I thought if I could query the view directly, it would save me a step.

Does that help?

[Owainnorth]

So you're saying you want a query, stored someone centrally, which retrieves the data from a view. You will then use this in a few places on your site?

If so, you simply want to wrap the CFQUERY up in a CFFUNCTION inside a Component (.cfc file). Have a big of a Google about on those, you'll find countless resources which can explain it better than I can