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Hello there, i'm pretty new to web development and i've come across this problem, so here's the case.
I got a videoclub database and i wanna show the movies categorized by the category that the movie belongs to. I got a table with all the categories (the table includes an ID and the name of the category),
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SELECT     MovieID, Name, Director, Category, Casting, Photo, Supplier, ReleaseDate
FROM         Movies
WHERE     (Category = @ Category)
The error i'm getting on the query builder is "Error in WHERE clause near '@'. Unable to parse query text.". If i aint wrong i'm supposed to use the "@" to indicate that its supposed to get data from a control. Anyway thats the prob, any help would be really apreciated.
P.S. The control i'm using is a dropdownlist that shows the categories names and has as a value the category id, so there isn't a variable miss match error as much as i know.

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Code:

-----
| ID |
-----
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
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