 <p>So that I understand, you have not yet built any ORM Entities? (CFC for each table)</p> <p>If you have not, all you have to do is setup all your tables (use cfbuilder with a RDS connection to build your ORM CFC files)</p> <p>Once you have all your tables referenced in ORM Persisted CFC files, you can do this with a cfquery tag and dbtype = "HQL" and return the data with QueryConvertForGrid()</p> <p>Then just return the data you want to your cfgrid via json or directly on the page into the cfgrid tag.</p>