Testing Knowledge Of SQL And DTS
Mar 31, 2004Hi,
I need help to test person's skills for
knowledge of SQL stored procedures
and DTS
Could someone point on good resources.
Thank you
Alex
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Knowledge Needed &<-----here . Please Help
Mar 13, 2008I am loosing my mind on this one. I select info from a database. I then take that selected info, and select info from another table based on that. Straight forward. The CompanyKey attached to my username is 7 which displays in the ReaderResults.Text. I the following line:
selectSQL2 = "SELECT * FROM Company WHERE companyKey = ('" + CompanyKey + "')"
I can change it to:
selectSQL2 = "SELECT * FROM Company_Membership WHERE companyKey = 7 "
and it works. I have no idea what is going on. Dissapearing string? Here is the code:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Database ConnectionDim con As New SqlConnection("Data Source = .SQLExpress;integrated security=true;attachdbfilename=|DataDirectory|ASPNETDB.mdf;user instance=true")
'Job1 InfoDim currentUserID
currentUserID = Context.User.Identity.Name.ToString()
Label1.Text = currentUserID
Dim selectSQL1 As String
selectSQL1 = "SELECT companyKey FROM Company WHERE UserID = ('" + currentUserID + "')"Dim cmd1 As New SqlCommand(selectSQL1, con)
Dim reader As SqlDataReaderDim CompanyKey
'Job2 Info
Dim selectSQL2 As String
selectSQL2 = "SELECT * FROM Company WHERE companyKey = ('" + CompanyKey + "')"Dim cmd2 As New SqlCommand(selectSQL2, con)
'Job1 Select
Try
con.Open()
reader = cmd1.ExecuteReader()Do While reader.Read()
CompanyKey = reader("CompanyKey").ToString()
Loop
reader.Close()Catch err As Exception
ReaderError.Text = "Error selecting record."
ReaderError.Text &= err.Message
Finally
ReaderResults.Text = CompanyKey
con.Close()
End Try
'Job2 Select
Try
con.Open()
reader = cmd2.ExecuteReader()
GridView1.DataSource = reader
GridView1.DataBind()
reader.Close()Catch err As Exception
ReaderError.Text = "Error selecting record."
ReaderError.Text &= err.Message
Finally
ReaderResults.Text = CompanyKey
con.Close()
End Try
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