Showing unique dates with multiple events

Question

I have a series of calendar events that I'm pulling from a
database, and each of them has an associated datestamp. Basically,
I want to be able to compact the dates, so that each unique date is
listed only once. I would like to present them in a format that
looks something like this:
Nov. 23: Pumpkin Festival
Comic Book Convention
Nov. 24: Woodworker's Presentation
Gallery Showing
Engineering Conference
Nov. 26: Music Festival
Right now, each event has to have a date associated with it.
Like so:
Nov. 23: Pumpkin Festival
Nov. 23: Comic Book Convention.
You can see, they're both on November 23rd.
I've attached the code I'm using to pull the database. It's
pulling events within a 31-day time period. Also, I've got
variables that break up the datestamp into individual parts, so I
just need to figure out how to show each unique date only
once.

Answer 1

> so that each unique date is listed only once
One way is to use the "group" attribute of
cfoutput.
In your SELECT, add a calculated field that extracts the date only.
Then ORDER BY that field and "group" by it in your cfoutput. Since
it contains date/time values, you can use DateFormat() to display
the dates in MMM dd format.
select
convert(datetime, convert(varchar, yourDateColumn, 112), 112)
as SortDate,
othercolumns ...
from your_table
order by SortDate, othercolumns