I have a WPF Application in which I am getting
string someone = TextBox.text;
I would like to use this in the following query
query = " Select * From Table Where Title = someone "
How should I go about using the variable someone in the query?
You can just do this
query = "Select * From Table Where Title = " + someone;
But that is bad and opens you to SQL Injection
You should just use a parameterized query
Something like this should get you started
using (var cn = new SqlClient.SqlConnection(yourConnectionString))
using (var cmd = new SqlClient.SqlCommand())
{
cn.Open();
cmd.Connection = cn;
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
cmd.CommandText = "Select * From Table Where Title = @Title";
cmd.Parameters.Add("@Title", someone);
}
From Jon Skeet's answer since his was more complete than mine
See the docs for SqlCommand.Parameters for more information.
Basically you shouldn't embed your values within the SQL itself for various reasons:
- It's inelegant to mix code and data
- It opens you up to SQL injection
attacks unless you're very careful about escaping
- You have to worry about formatting and i18n details for things like numbers, dates and
times etc
- When the query remains the same with only the values
changing, the optimizer has less work to do - it can look up the
previous optimized query directly as it'll be a perfect match in
terms of the SQL.
You should use a parameterized SQL query:
query = "SELECT * From TableName WHERE Title = @Title";
command.Parameters.Add("@Title", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = someone;
See the docs for SqlCommand.Parameters for more information.
Basically you shouldn't embed your values within the SQL itself for various reasons:
- It's inelegant to mix code and data
- It opens you up to SQL injection attacks unless you're very careful about escaping
- You have to worry about formatting and i18n details for things like numbers, dates and times etc
- When the query remains the same with only the values changing, the optimizer has less work to do - it can look up the previous optimized query directly as it'll be a perfect match in terms of the SQL.
Easiest is to use a C# Prepared sql. Example on this post. You don't have to worry about escaping the characters in your sql string or anything
declare @SqlQuery varchar(2000), @Fromdate varchar(20), @Todate varchar(20)
set @Fromdate='01 jan 2017'
set @Todate='30 mar 2017'
set @SqlQuery='select * from tblEmployee where tblEmployee.JDate between '''+ @Fromdate + ''' and '''+ @Todate+ ''''
print @SqlQuery