How To Check For Null / Empty For A Variable In Post Deployment Script
Oct 28, 2015
I am using SSDT to deploy my database project. This project has a post deployment script and i am creating a new user in this post deployment script. I have used sqlcmd variable to capture the username. I am doing a null/empty check for this variable and my code looks like below.
IF (([$(UserName)] IS NOT NULL) OR ([$(UserName)] <> ''))
BEGIN
CREATE USER [$(UserName)] WITHOUT LOGIN WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo;
GRANT CONNECT TO [$(UserName)];
END
When i execute this, I am getting below error.
Could not deploy package.
Error SQL72014: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 207, Level 16, State 1,Line 15 Invalid column name 'User Name'.
Error SQL72045: Script execution error. The executed script:
declare @user varchar(30) = '' if(@user is not null or @user <> '') BEGIN print 'I am not empty' END ELSE BEGIN print 'I am empty' ENd
The output should be 'i am empty' but when i execute this i am getting ' i am not empty'. even i did browse through but i don't find the difference in my logic.
i have a trigger on a table right now... when fields are inserted, theres a text field inserted and i want to check if that text field = '' (the empty string, not NULL) and if it doesn't equal that, then perform some row updates on other tables, but if it is empty, to not do anything else in the trigger... right now i have this:
Code:
IF ((SELECT Note FROM XATPoDetail WHERE ReqNbr = (SELECT ReqNbr FROM Inserted)) LIKE(''))
Note is the text field, XATPoDetail is the table where its being inserted into. I had to do the select FROM the table because it wouldn't let me select a text data type from the "Inserted" virtual table
but it tells me me "Error 279: The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression"
i have a trigger on a table right now... when fields are inserted, theres a text field inserted and i want to check if that text field = '' (the empty string, not NULL) and if it doesn't equal that, then perform some row updates on other tables, but if it is empty, to not do anything else in the trigger... right now i have this:
IF ((SELECT Note FROM XATPoDetail WHERE ReqNbr = (SELECT ReqNbr FROM Inserted)) LIKE(''))
Note is the text field, XATPoDetail is the table where its being inserted into. I had to do the select FROM the table because it wouldn't let me select a text data type from the "Inserted" virtual table
but it tells me me "Error 279: The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression"
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<%@ Page Language="VB" %><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <script runat="server">Protected Sub submit_Button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Try 'declare a connection to database Dim sqlCn As New Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True") 'connection string for sql server 2005 'open connection sqlCn.Open() 'declare a command to fire against databaseDim sqlCmd As New Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand("Insert Into Locations (Locations) VALUES (@Locations)", sqlCn) Dim sqlCmd2 As New Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand("Insert Into Results (Results) VALUES (@Results)", sqlCn) 'add the parameters to sql commandsqlCmd.Parameters.Add(New Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@Locations", newlocation_TextBox.Text.Trim))sqlCmd2.Parameters.Add(New Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("@Results", name_TextBox.Text.Trim))
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Well met,
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Consider this bit o' code:
DECLARE @ORDER CHAR(10) SET @ORDER= ( SELECT NULL ) IF @ORDER <> '' PRINT 'Not an empty string'
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Run this and you will get:
It is NULL
I was expecting:
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