Question

I have a SP with 20 select queries. Each query is table-name-aliased like below.

Create procedure sp_get_all_lists
 as
 begin
   select col1, col2 from tb_ nm as name
   select col1, col2 from tb_ctry as country
   select col1, col2 from tc_cty city
    .
    .
    .
   select col1, col2 from tb_prfl as profile
  end

I need to bind all the data to dropdown lists in ASP.NET C# web page. While binding, if the query is executed, the DataTable array in DataSet, have the names as Table1, Table2… etc. I need the datatables to bear the alias names i gave in the SP.

This would help me bind the dropdowns as

ddCtry.DataSource = ds.Tables["country"];

Currently am doing it as ddCtry.DataSource = ds.Tables[1];

Could someone help me to get the table-alias name in C# code.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is no way to do this (as of .NET 4.0) See the “Multiple Result sets” sections of:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bh8kx08z.aspx

and also this question:
set the result table name in stored procedure

You could try using Linq