Question

I have the following ColdFusion 9 code:

<cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(tagArray)#" index="i">
    <cfquery name="qryGetSPFAQs" datasource="#application.datasource#">
        EXEC searchFAQ '#tagArray[i]#'
    </cfquery>
</cfloop>

The EXEC executes a stored procedure on the database server, which returns rows of data, depending on what the parameter is. What I am trying to do is combine the queries into one query object. In other words, if it loops 3 times and each loop returns 4 rows, I want a query object that has all 12 rows in one object. How do I acheive this?

Answer 1

You might want to take a different approach (modify your stored procedure to accept multiple arguments or use a list and fnSplit) and return the dataset all at once. However, to directly answer your question, this is how you could combine the queries as you’re asking to:

You can use UNION in a Query of Queries to combine all of the datasets.

<cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(tagArray)#" index="i">
    <cfquery name="qryGetSPFAQs#i#" datasource="#application.datasource#">
        EXEC searchFAQ '#tagArray[i]#'
    </cfquery>
</cfloop>

<cfquery name="combined" dbtype="query">
    <cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(tagArray)#" index="i">
        select * from qryGetSPFAQs#i#
        <cfif i lt arrayLen(tagArray)>UNION</cfif>
    </cfloop>
</cfquery>