Question

Anyone know why the following is not working?

Dim strPhrase As String = "'%office%'"

objStringBuilder = New StringBuilder()

objSQLConnection = New SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("connString"))

objSQLCommand = New SqlCommand("select col1, col2 from table1 where phrase like @phrase", objSQLConnection)

objSQLCommand.Parameters.Add("@phrase", SqlDbType.VarChar, 255).Value = strPhrase

objSQLCommand.Connection.Open()
objSQLDataReader = objSQLCommand.ExecuteReader()

While objSQLDataReader.Read()
objStringBuilder.Append(objSQLDataReader("col1") & " - " & objSQLDataReader("col2"))
End While

objSQLDataReader.Close()
objSQLCommand.Connection.Close()

return objStringBuilder.tostring()

If I remove anything to do with phrase, it starts working again, i.e:

objStringBuilder = New StringBuilder()

objSQLConnection = New SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("connString"))

objSQLCommand = New SqlCommand("select col1, col2 from table1", objSQLConnection)

objSQLCommand.Connection.Open()
objSQLDataReader = objSQLCommand.ExecuteReader()

While objSQLDataReader.Read()
objStringBuilder.Append(objSQLDataReader("col1") & " - " & objSQLDataReader("col2"))
End While

objSQLDataReader.Close()
objSQLCommand.Connection.Close()

return objStringBuilder.tostring()

I get no errors, it just returns a blank string.

Answer 1

Remove the ” from around your search phrase, the command object deals with all that for you. i.e.

Dim strPhrase As String = "%office%"