Question

I have some columns like text_en, text_es, text_de in a SQL table. Now I want to retrieve the value from just one column depending on the language.
So I created an sql string
SELECT @textfield FROM <table>
and in the vb code I use
cmd.AddWithValue("textfield", "text_" + lang)
But sql returns the name of the column instead of the value of that column. How can I get the value?

Answer 1

You can also do

SELECT CASE @textfield
         WHEN 'text_en' THEN text_en
         WHEN 'text_es' THEN text_es
         WHEN 'text_de' THEN text_de
       END AS local_text
FROM TableName