CFQuery column names case sensitive

is there a specific reason for this

The reason is that we have ColdFusion  program which creates an excel file. The excel file is then uploaded onto a hosted server using a proprietary tool. The proprietary tool requires the cases of the Excel column names  and the hosted table to be the same.

I know we can use qryMae.getMetaData().getColumnLabels(), but how do I get the case name of the case sensitive column in the query instead of the upper case name CFQUERY produces.

Unfortunately CF doesn't provide a simple (documented) way to access the original column names from queries. As you noted, query.columnList is always upper case - and in alphabetical order.

>> I know we can use qryMae.getMetaData().getColumnLabels(),

I know it returns an array, but doesn't that work for you? When used with a regular db query it returns the correct case and column order. To generate your list, just arrayToList().

The only other way I know of is to use the getMetaData() function. It returns an array of the name, datatype, etc...  But that seems like a longer version of what you suggested already. Am I missing something?

<cfset meta = getMetadata(q)>
<cfset colNames = "">
<cfloop array="#meta#" index="col">
	<cfset colNames = listAppend(colNames, col.name)>
</cfloop>

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Your solution will work.


Strategy is to use CFQUERY to create Excel with upper case header and then with the data obtained from getMetaData()   replace the first row of the Excel spreadsheet with case sensitive fields.

How do I update the first row of an Excel spreadsheet ?