| Setting | Description | 
  
    | CF Data Source Name | The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion to connect to the data source. | 
  
    | JDBC URL | The JDBC Connection URL for this data source. | 
  
    | Driver Class | The class (1, 2, 3, or 4) of the driver. | 
  
    | Driver Name | (Optional) The name of the driver. | 
  
    | Username | The user name that ColdFusion passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a user name-for example, in a cfquerytag. | 
  
    | Password | The password that ColdFusion passes to the JDBC driver to connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not supply a password-for example, in a cfquerytag. | 
  
    | Description | (Optional) A description for this connection. | 
  
    | Maintain Connections | ColdFusion establishes a connection to a data source for every operation that requires one. Enable this option to improve performance by caching the data source connection.  | 
  
    | Timeout (min) | The maximum number of minutes after the data source connection is made that you want ColdFusion to cache a connection after it is used. | 
  
    | Interval (sec) | The time (in seconds) that the server waits between cycles to check for expired data source connections to close. | 
  
    | Disable Connections | If selected, suspends all client connections. | 
  
    | Login Timeout (sec) | The number of seconds before ColdFusion times out the data source connection login attempt. | 
  
    | CLOB | Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in the database for this data source. If unchecked, ColdFusion retrieves the amount specified in the Long Text Buffer setting. | 
  
    | BLOB  | Select to return the entire contents of any BLOB/Image columns in the database for this data source. If unchecked, ColdFusion retrieves the amount specified in the Blob Buffer setting. | 
  
    | LongText Buffer (chr) | The default buffer size, used if Enable Long Text Retrieval(CLOB) is not selected. Default is 65000 bytes. | 
  
    | BLOB Buffer (bytes) | The default buffer size, used if Enable binary large object retrieval (BLOB) is not selected. Default is 65000 bytes. | 
  
    | Allowed SQL | The SQL operations that can interact with the current data source. |