c# string query put null for sql server parameter - c#

I know this question was asked many times, but i am not able to find a solution for it
This is my code
string query = #"SELECT *
FROM SMSMessage
WHERE (respondCode IS #respondCode)
and (sentOn > '08/26/2016')
";
//string query = "select * from SMSMessage";
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(Utilities.getConnectionString());
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#respondCode", DBNull.Value);
I want the responseCode to be null,
I am getting error:
syntax error near #responseCode
when I do this responseCode is NULL, there is no syntax error, but the query for some reaonse doesn't bring any result
Help please

I would use directly IS NULL and not passing any parameter, but the most important change is how do you apply the date constant in your query statement.
Assuming you use the Italian locale in your sql server database I would use
string query = #"SELECT * SMSMessage
WHERE respondCode IS NULL
AND (sentOn > CONVERT(DateTime, '26/08/2016', 105))
T-SQL Convert docs
On the contrary I would look carefully to the value passed for the sentOn condition. If this value changes dynamically it is better to use a parameter for this value. In this way the query optimizer of sql server will be able to build a better (faster) execution plan
string query = #"SELECT * SMSMessage
WHERE respondCode IS NULL
AND sentOn > #dateLimit";
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(Utilities.getConnectionString());
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, con);
cmd.Parameters.Add("#dateLimit", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = new DateTime(2016, 8, 26);

I guess you want this
Where (respondCode = #respondCode or #respondCode is null)
and sentOn > '08/26/2016'
When a value is passed to #respondCode parameter the records will be filter based on #respondCode and sentOn > '08/26/2016'.
When nothing is passed to #respondCode parameter (ie) NULL, then records will be filtered only based on sentOn > '08/26/2016'
As mentioned in comments by Steve, If you need records only when respondCode is NULL then no need of that variable just hardcode the NULL condition in Where clause
Where respondCode is null
and sentOn > '08/26/2016'

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Invalid Column Name: "value" - Error Even though it works in another form.

I am stuck at one problem and I just can't solve this.
I get this Error:
Error Message
That's the relevant table
The Code:
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
connection.Open();
string query = "UPDATE CAC SET nextMaintainance = #nextMaintainance WHERE department = " + #departmentCB.Text;
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(query, connection);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#nextMaintainance", nextMaintainanceDT.Value);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
The weird thing I don't understand is that a similar code works just fine without any error in my project:
query = "UPDATE LDV SET received = #received, department = #department WHERE Id =" + #idTxt.Text;
command = new SqlCommand(query, connection);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#received", inDT.Value);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#department", departmentCb.Text);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
MessageBox.Show("Lungenautomat wurde aktualisiert");
If relevant, my connection string:
connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SCBA_Manager_0._1.Properties.Settings.SCBAmanagerConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
I really hope you can help me :(
Thank you!
The department column is a text column, so comparing it to a value means the value should be wrapped in quotes.
// This fix is not the recommended approach, see the explanation after this code block
string query = "UPDATE CAC SET nextMaintainance = #nextMaintainance WHERE department = '" + departmentCB.Text + "'";
// ^--------------------------^------ single quote added to wrap the value returned by departmentCB.Text
On the other hand, this error does not occur in your second example, because there you're correctly using the Parameters.AddWithValue() method to add the value for the #department parameter, and because id is a numeric column, so it doesn't require the value wrapped in quotes.
However, while the code shown above does the job, it is not the right way of doing the job. The correct way is to used parameters for all values to be injected into a query. The queries you've shown above are already correctly using parameters for some values (e.g. nextMaintenance in the first query, received and department in the second), but are incorrectly doing string concatenation for other values (e.g. department in the first query, id in the second).
Usage of Parameterized SQL
The benefit of using parameterized SQL is that it automatically takes care of adding quotes, prevents SQL injection, etc.
Therefore, its best to change your first code block to:
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
connection.Open();
string query = "UPDATE CAC SET nextMaintainance = #nextMaintainance WHERE department = #department";
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(query, connection);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#department", departmentCb.Text);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#nextMaintainance", nextMaintainanceDT.Value);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
Notice how the string query is a single string without any messy concatenation, and that it contains two parameters #nextMaintenance and #department? And how the values for those parameters are correctly injected using Parameters.AddWithValue() in the following lines?
Your second code block can be similarly improved by using a parameter for the Id column.
query = "UPDATE LDV SET received = #received, department = #department WHERE Id = #Id ";
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Id", idTxt.Text);
Further Information
Do read up about SQL injection ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms161953(v=sql.105).aspx ) to see how using string concatenation like your original code can lead to various security issues, and why parameterized queries are the preferred way of injecting dynamic values into SQL queries.
You can read up more about parameterized queries here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yy6y35y8(v=vs.110).aspx
In your first example, the WHERE clause evaluates to
WHERE department = Kasseedorf
wheras it should be
WHERE department = 'Kasseedorf'
So the line should be
string query = "UPDATE CAC SET nextMaintainance = #nextMaintainance WHERE department = '" + #departmentCB.Text +"'";
It works in the second example, because id is an integer and doesn't neet quotes.

SqlCommand SUM(NVL()) issue

Hello I'm trying to select SUM of all payments but got this exception: nvl is not a recognized function name
with this code:
SqlCommand sc2 = new SqlCommand("SELECT SUM(NVL(payments,0)) AS sumcastka FROM kliplat WHERE akce=" + zakce.Text, spojeni);
spojeni.Open();
int sumOfPrice = 0;
object vysledek2 = sc2.ExecuteScalar();
if (vysledek2 != DBNull.Value)
sumOfPrice = Convert.ToInt32(vysledek2);
// int vysledek2 = Convert.ToInt32(sc2.ExecuteScalar());
spojeni.Close();
This should work as when no records are found for column "payments" I would like to get "0" if possible.
Thank you for reading this.
NVL() is an oracle-specific function. You can use the ANSI COALSECE function to perform the same task. The benefit of COALESCE is that it takes more than two parameters, and picks the first non-null value.
This should work as when no records are found for column "payments"
No, it will only treat NULL values in the payments column as 0.
If no records are found, then ExecuteScalar returns null (not DBNull):
SqlCommand sc2 = new SqlCommand("SELECT SUM(ISNULL(payments,0)) AS sumcastka FROM kliplat WHERE akce=" + zakce.Text, spojeni);
spojeni.Open();
int sumOfPrice = 0;
object vysledek2 = sc2.ExecuteScalar();
if (vysledek2 != null && vysledek2 != DBNull.Value)
sumOfPrice = Convert.ToInt32(vysledek2);
spojeni.Close();
You should also look into using SqlParameters instead of concatenating strings, but that's a separate issue.
In SQL server there is a funcation called ISNULL for the purpose. Please find the query below:
SELECT SUM(ISNULL(payments,0)) AS sumcastka FROM kliplat WHERE akce=" + zakce.Text, spojeni

SqlCommand read one value

I have a problem with the value returned from SqlCommand, I have this code:
string sqlSelect = "Select TOP 1 Quotation.SentToSupp as SentToSupp FROM Quotation JOIN Notifications ON Quotation.QuotationId = QuotationID ";
SqlCommand Comm = new SqlCommand(sqlSelect, this.Connection);
sqlSelect query selects the first DateTime value. When I call to SqlCommand I want to get this value (just one value). I add the query and my connection fine.
But I don't know how to get my DateTime value... Must to use something like ExecuteReader?
Thank you in advance!!
ExecuteReader works but more objects and more code are required - (An SqlDataReader, call to Read and Extract value). Instead you could simply use the ExecuteScalar method of the SqlCommand object (It returns just the first column of the first row of the resultset)
string sqlSelect = "Select TOP 1 Quotation.SentToSupp as SentToSupp FROM ....";
SqlCommand Comm = new SqlCommand(sqlSelect, this.Connection);
object result = Comm.ExecuteScalar();
if(result != null)
DateTime dtResult = Convert.ToDateTime(result);
Just pay attention to the fact that ExecuteScalar could return a null value if, for some reason, there is no record in the result returned
Use SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar method - Executes the query, and returns the first column of the first row in the result set returned by the query. Additional columns or rows are ignored.

Is this query to retrieve data from database correct?

I need to retrieve a value from a field in database. I have the used following code. but the value checkOrderId (which I need) shows the SQL string instead of the value from database. I don't know why it is doing so. Could somebody help me please?
string connectionString = "Data Source = xxyyzz;Initial Catalog = xyz; Integrated Security = True";
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
connection.Open();
string tableName = "[GIS].[SecondaryTraffic].[PotentialBackHauls]";
string checkOrderId = "Select TOP 1 OrderID From" + tableName + "ORDER BY InsertDate DESC";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(checkOrderId, connection);
//cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
OpenPop.Pop3.Pop3Client popConn = new OpenPop.Pop3.Pop3Client();
if (orderIdentity == checkOrderId)
{
popConn.DeleteMessage(messageNumber);
}
connection.Close();
I am new and dont have reputation to answer my question immediately. With everybody's help, i got this one solved...Great help, thanx everybody...following is my code.
string connectionString = "Data Source = EAEDEV;Initial Catalog = GIS; Integrated Security = True";
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
connection.Open();
string tableName = "[GIS].[SecondaryTraffic].[PotentialBackHauls]";
string checkOrderId = "Select TOP 1 OrderID From " + tableName + " ORDER BY InsertDate DESC";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(checkOrderId, connection);
string valueReturned = (string)cmd.ExecuteScalar();
OpenPop.Pop3.Pop3Client popConn = new OpenPop.Pop3.Pop3Client();
if (orderIdentity == valueReturned)
{
popConn.DeleteMessage(messageNumber);
}
connection.Close();
}
You need to execute the query and check the results, here you are just comparing a string with the query SQL.
Please see here
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial/AdoDotNet/lesson03
for a tutorial.
Your expectation of the result being set into checkOrderId is incorrect. In this instance checkOrderId is just the query to execute and not the actual result.
You need to read the value back from executing the command:
using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
using (var comm = new SqlCommand("Select TOP 1 OrderID From [GIS].[SecondaryTraffic].[PotentialBackHauls] ORDER BY InsertDate DESC", connection))
{
connection.Open();
object result = comm.ExecuteScalar(); // This is the key bit you were missing.
if (result != null)
{
// You can cast result to something useful
int orderId = (int)result;
}
} // Both comm and connection will have Dispose called on them here, no need to Close manually.
ExecuteScalar returns the value in the first cell (ie, column 1 row 1) as an object that you can cast to a better type (depending on what type it was in the result-set schema).
If you need to read multiple values, you need to look at ExecuteReader.
There are also other ways of doing this using output parameters, but that would pollute the point of the answer.
You can add space to your query
"Select TOP 1 OrderID From " + tableName + " ORDER BY InsertDate DESC";
Nota : I suggest you to use AddWithValue method with your parameter
string checkOrderId = "Select TOP 1 OrderID From #tableName ORDER BY InsertDate DESC";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(checkOrderId, connection);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#tableName", tableName );
Link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlparametercollection.addwithvalue.aspx
You don't actually run your command anywhere. Instead of the commented-out cmd.ExecuteNonQuery, you should look into the ExecuteScalar method, which allows you to read back a single result value from a query - which is what your query returns.
Add
int i = (Int32) cmd.ExecuteScalar();
right after
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(checkOrderId, connection);
then the variable i will contain the order id
No, this is not correct. You are comparing the variable orderId to your query string. I doubt that's what you want to do. I imagine you'd be better off calling cmd.ExecuteScalar() to retrieve the actual OrderID value. As noted by other answers, your query string is missing a space. But most importantly, it is bad practice to construct SQL queries in code. Although I can't see a security issue with this code, if you continue to use this method you will probably write code that is vulnerable to SQL injection. I recommend you learn to either use parameters or LINQ to build your queries.

Issue with SqlCommand Parameters

When I execute the following query in SSMS I get the expected result i.e. '1'
SELECT TSID
FROM tblTimesheets
WHERE TSUser = 'PJW' AND TSDate = '2012-01-18';
However, when the SqlCommand is produced by the code in my application the ExecuteScalar fails (it simply causes the method to exit with no error message).
public int GetID(string paramUser, DateTime paramDate)
{
string strSql = "SELECT TSID " +
"FROM tblTimesheets " +
"WHERE TSUser = #TSUser AND TSDate = #TSDate;";
string strConnection = BuildConnectionString();
SqlConnection linkToDB = new SqlConnection(strConnection);
linkToDB.Open();
SqlCommand sqlCom = new SqlCommand(strSql, linkToDB);
sqlCom.Parameters.Add("#TSUser", SqlDbType.Text);
sqlCom.Parameters.Add("#TSDate", SqlDbType.Date);
sqlCom.Parameters["#TSUser"].Value = paramUser;
sqlCom.Parameters["#TSDate"].Value = paramDate;
int intResult = (Int32)sqlCom.ExecuteScalar();
linkToDB.Close();
return intResult;
}
I've stepped through the code and can confirm the parameters are PJW and 2012-01-18 as required, but the ExecuteScalar returns any data, which I know should be there based on my comparable query in SSMS.
Please assist.
Instead of SqlDbType.Text try any of the following, depending on the type of the column:
SqlDbType.VarChar
SqlDbType.NVarChar
SqlDbType.NText
SqlDbType.NChar
SqlDbType.Char
When the parameter is of DB type date, it is a good practice to defensively strip the time part on setting the parameter, like this:
sqlCom.Parameters.Add("#TSDate", SqlDbType.Date);
sqlCom.Parameters["#TSDate"].Value = paramDate.Date;
Please let me know if this does not help, and I'll remove my answer.
You say the ExecuteScalar fails with no error message. Wrap your code in a try-catch block to make sure any exceptions that ExecuteScalar() might be throwing are caught.
Other than that try and do as others have suggested and view the SQL produced using SQL Profiler, then run that SQL in SSMS to compare results.
SELECT TSID
FROM tblTimesheets
WHERE TSUser = 'PJW' AND TSDate = '2012-01-18';
Here U r passing the exact date as parameter
Where as while passing the parameter in to the stored procedure you are passing
"DateTime paramDate"
A date time variable
May be you need to parse to exact date format as supported by the stored procedure
i.e you need to format the paramDate variable to 'YYYY-mm-DD'
I am not sure.. Try it.. and reply if it helps or not !

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