create a TableAdapter method with parameters when using OLEDB

If use the following query script for creating a TableAdapter method, like “GetDataById”, when using OLEDB:

“SELECT * FROM aTable WHERE theID=@id”

an error will happen:

“error in where clause near ‘@’ unable to parse query text”

The solution is to use “?”, instead of “@variablename”, so teh following will succeed:

“SELECT * FROM aTable WHERE theID=?”

combine multiple rows in one

I have a table as:

itemID tagID
100                111
200                222
200                223
300                333
300                334
300                335

I want to have a select statement to group records by itemID and one itemID will have only one row, multiple tagIDs will be combined in one field.

Step1: create a scalar-valued function (UDF)

ALTER FUNCTION sUDF_itemTagIds(@aItemId int)
RETURNS varchar(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @tagids varchar(max)
SELECT @tagids = COALESCE(@tagids + ‘,’,”) + convert(varchar(20),tagID)
FROM myTable
WHERE itemID = @aItemId
RETURN @tagids
END
GO

Step2: call the UDF from the SQL script:

SELECT itemID,dbo.sUDF_itemTagIds(itemID) as tagIDs
FROM myTable
GROUP BY itemID

Here is the result:

itemID tagIDs
100                111
200                222,223
300                333,334,335

Intro to User Defined Functions

The ability to create a user-defined function (UDF) is a new feature added to SQL Server 2000.

A user-defined function is a database object that encapsulates one or more Transact-SQL statements for reuse. This definition is similar to the one for stored procedures, but there are many important differences between user-defined functions and stored procedures—the most pronounced being what types of data they can return.

Scalar Functions

A scalar function returns a single value of the data type referenced in the RETURNS clause of the CREATE FUNCTION statement. The returned data can be of any type except text, ntext, image, cursor, or timestamp.

Inline Table-Valued Functions

An inline table-valued function returns a variable of data type table whose value is derived from a single SELECT statement.

Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions

The multi-statement table-valued function is slightly more complicated than the other two types of functions because it uses multiple statements to build the table that is returned to the calling statement. Unlike the inline table-valued function, a table variable must be explicitly declared and defined.

COALESCE

Returns the first nonnull expression among its arguments.

Syntax

COALESCE ( expression [ ,...n ] )