coldfusion tip of the day

I am trying to blog more often. So, to help with that I am going to try to start doing a "Tip of the Day", even though it might not be every day. See, I am already trying to get out of it.

I was looking at some code today, and could not figure out why something was not displaying. Here is the if statement I was looking at:

Do you see it? I didn't at first either. ColdFusion is treating variables.myQuery as a string. The solution I used was to remove the quotes, and everything worked. You could also put pound signs around variables.myQuery inside the quotes.