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Asked: 2026-06-05T11:50:50+00:00

I’m designing an ASP.NET Web Forms application that will be used to query the

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I’m designing an ASP.NET Web Forms application that will be used to query the database dynamically with customized values and filters.

For example:

  • Pull up 3 fields: SKU, Description, Price, Color.

  • The value of Description should be ProductName + comma + space +
    Description.

  • The value of Price should be Price + 10.00.

  • The value of Color should be Red if the SKU = 123.

I need to store these “rules” in my SQL database so I can query my database at a later time based on these rules.

Initially, I was thinking to store the rule as SQL text like “ProductName + ‘, ‘ + Description”, and then use this in my dynamic SQL.

But there’s a few things that need wouldn’t work if I were to do that:

  1. Differentiating between column names and static text. ( I guess the single quotes would take care of that)
  2. Different data types (when concatenating let’s say)
  3. Case statements
  4. There are where clauses too.

I need ideas how to go about this – my database structure and how to query from these rules.

I’m using ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL Server database.

Thanks for any help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up creating a table with Fields (FieldID, FieldName), and Values(Value, ValueType, Datatype, FieldID). So, if I needed Description to equal to ProductName + comma + space + Description, I would have a record in Fields table with FieldName=”Description” and a value record for ProductName, comma+space and Description. ProductName and Description would have a ValueType of “Field” and “, ” (comma space) would have “Static”.

    I then constructed my sql query with parameters based on these attributes.

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