If you’ve encountered an error “Query Of Queries syntax error. Encountered “local.” while running a Query of a Query in ColdFusion, thanks to Ben Nadel I have the solution.

<cfquery name="local.myQuery" dbtype="query">
SELECT [value]
FROM local.myQueryResults
WHERE [name] = 'Chris'
</cfquery>

Running the above code will error out due to “local” being a reserved keyword in SQL. The solution is to wrap “local” in brackets like “[local]”.

<cfquery name="local.myQuery" dbtype="query">
SELECT [value]
FROM [local].myQueryResults
WHERE [name] = 'Chris'
</cfquery>