Honestly even very crappily written SQL will probably still be faster than ColdFusion, particularly if you're using stored procedures. I'm not going to claim I

Honestly even very crappily written SQL will probably still be faster than ColdFusion, particularly if you're using stored procedures. I'm not going to claim I'm the world expert of anything, and the SQL I write was never hyper-optimized, but ColdFusion was just ridiculously slow.