Caching Queries -- Duh Moment

In playing with caching CFMX queries, I kept bumping up against the scope of the cached query. If I created a cached query, but stored it in a CFC or UDF, I couldn't always get a page to refer to the recordset due to scoping limitations.

I wanted a query that only updates occaisionally or not at all (such as a list of states, or sales tax tables) but is available to all pages of my site w/o regard to the page. I have to make sure the query is run and the values cached into a memory variable, such as request, or application in my application.cfc.

This worked perfectly, but in a complete DUH moment, I never realized that the query structure could also be referenced as a CFDUMP anywhere on my site.

In application.CFC:

or

Then in any other page that I need to call the variables, I can just use request.foorecords as the query. So