Incrementing a variable in memory

Question

I have an older application that is querying a list, pulling out an AD from the list, then incrementing the database by +1 with every pull. The site has grown very popular and now the traffic is creating a ton of deadlocks. I tried using CFLOCK but that made things worse.
Instead of writing each increment to the DB, I want to write it to memory and then run a routine which collects that value at some interval and update the DB.
How would I do this? Would I use an Array or some other method? I am not all that familiar with CF.  Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Referring to my last post, it might be more efficient to join the 2 queries into one. In fact I should have commented out the second query as optional. It now looks a bit confusing -- even to me! You would only run it where you needed to use the current number of views from the database.
<cflock scope="application" timeout="10" throwontimeout="no" type="exclusive">
    <CFQUERY NAME="application.GRABCOMPANYINFO" DATASOURCE="bg4">
        SELECT      COMPANY_ID, COMPANY, WEBADDRESS, graphic, flashad
        FROM        dbo.COMPANIES
        WHERE       COMPANY_ID = #application.COMPANY_ID#
    </CFQUERY>
<!---
    <CFQUERY NAME="application.getViews" DATASOURCE="BG4">
        SELECT     VIEWS, MONTHVIEWS
        FROM     dbo.BANNERKING
        WHERE   COMPANY_ID = #application.COMPANY_ID#
    </CFQUERY>
--->
    <!--- update the number of views for each particular company_id--->
    <cfset application.views["#application.COMPANY_ID#"] = application.views["#application.COMPANY_ID#"] + 1>
    <cfset application.monthViews["#application.COMPANY_ID#"] = application.monthViews["#application.COMPANY_ID#"] + 1>
</cflock>
<!--- much later in the code ... --->
<cflock scope="application" timeout="10" throwontimeout="no" type="exclusive">
    <CFQUERY NAME="UPDATEVIEWS" DATASOURCE="BG4">
    UPDATE     dbo.BANNERKING
    SET        VIEWS=#application.views[application.COMPANY_ID]#,MONTHVIEWS=#application.monthViews[appl ication.COMPANY_ID]#
    WHERE      COMPANY_ID = #application.COMPANY_ID#
    </CFQUERY>
</cflock>