Xamarin SQLite Query - sqlite

I try to create a query in the shard project in xamarin.
I can successfully create a connection to my local DB with dependecy services. But I'm not able to create a query.
Here is my code:
Connection to DB(successfully)
SQLite.SQLiteConnection DBConnection = DependencyService.Get<IDBHelper>().DbConnection(DBPath);
Get table Info (successfully)
var TableInfo = DBConnection.GetTableInfo("SomeTableName");
Query (failed)
var ReturnValue = DBConnection.Query<string>("Select * from SomeTable Where SomeColumn Like 'Value'");
Viusal Studio shows me the problem, its the <string> part. But I have no idea what I have to change.
How can I create a simple select query?

You are probably using the SQLite-Net package. This works like an ORM over SQLite database.
The generic part (where you did put <string>) is the type of object that the query must expect when getting results.
It will automatically turn the resultset into a list of your queried type.
As you are querying all data from the SomeTable table each row will represent a SomeTable object (I guess you have created such class).
Just change this line to:
var ReturnValue = DBConnection.Query<SomeTable>("Select * from SomeTable Where SomeColumn Like 'Value'");
or
var ReturnValue = DBConnection.Query<object>("Select * from SomeTable Where SomeColumn Like 'Value'");
You can get a step by step using SQLite at the official sqlite-net documentation.
I hope it helps.

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What do I need to learn for accessing data from mssql database?

I am learning asp.net core mvc and API. I can simply work on it for CRUD operation. But, I get confused for accessing data from multiple tables like listing all categories with showing number of items each categories contains. What I need to learn for example Lina, entity framework code first, ado.net? I am currently using entity framework code first.
Thanks
Learn Dapper a simple object mapper for .NET.
What I Understood from your problem is that you have multiple tables and you want to query them and map the query result in your c# or vb code.Here I will show simple mapping of query result to c# objects.
Suppose you have three tables category_1,category_2 and category_3.
Lets say each table have two columns named itemName and ItemValue.
Lets create c# class corresponding to each table.
class category_1{
string ItemName {get;set};
int ItemValue {get;set;};
}
class category_2{
string ItemName {get;set};
int ItemValue {get;set;};
}
class category_3{
string ItemName {get;set};
int ItemValue {get;set;};
}
Suppose your querying three tables and map the result of query to respective object in c#.
let our sql query be as follows:
string sql = #"select * from category_1;select * from category_2;select * from category_3;"
Here we have three select statements and each select statement will give you result of respective table.Lets query the above sql to database using dapper and map them to c# object as follows.
List<category_1> lstCotegory1 = new List<category_1>();
List<category_2> lstCotegory2 = new List<category_2>();
List<category_3> lstCotegory3 = new List<category_3>();
using (var multi = connection.QueryMultiple(sql))
{
lstCotegory1 = multi.Read<category_1>().ToList(); // map first select statement
lstCotegory2 = multi.Read<category_2>().ToList(); // map second select statement
lstCotegory3 = multi.Read<category_3>().ToList(); // map third select statement.
}
This is how you can return results of multiple queries and map them to appropriate object. I know you can do better than this but to understand we have to go with simple example.Hope this will help.

SQL Lite Xamarin : Query

I'm newbie in SQLite.
I would like to query my SQLite database to get multiple rows.
When I add a new item in my local database I call this method Add:
public bool Add<T>(string key, T value)
{
return this.Insert(new SQliteCacheTable(key, this.GetBytes(value))) == 1;
}
_simpleCache.Add("favorite_1", data1);
_simpleCache.Add("favorite_2", data2);
_simpleCache.Add("favorite_3", data2);
Then,
I would like to retrieve from local database all entries where key starts with "favorite_"
to returns all objects in the database which are "favorite" objects.
I'm experienced in Linq, and I would like to do something like this:
IEnumerable<Element> = repository.Find((element) => element.Key.StartWith("favorite_"))
In the SQLiteConnection class there is a method like this:
SQLite.Net.SQLiteConnection.Find<T>(System.Linq.Expressions.Expression<System.Func<T,bool>>)
But I would like the same with in returns a collection IEnumerable<T>.
Can you help me please?
Thank you.
Jool
You have to build your query on the table itself, not the connection:
Assuming:
SQLiteConnection repository;
Then the code would look like:
var favorites = repository.Table<SQliteCacheTable>().Where(item => item.StartsWith("favorite_"));
The favorites variable is of type TableQuery<SQliteCacheTable> though, so it does not yet contain your data. The execution of the actual SQL query will be deferred until you try to access the results (by enumerating with foreach or converting to a list with ToList, for example).
To actually observe what's going on on the database, you can turn on tracing in sqlite-net, by setting repository.Trace = true on your SQLiteConnection object.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that you can also use the C# query syntax on TableQuery<T> objects, if your comfortable with it. So your query could become:
var favorites = from item in repository.Table<SQliteCacheTable>()
where item.StartsWith("favorite_")
select item;

How to use SQL Server 2008 stored procedure in asp.net mvc

I have created a simple stored procedure in SQL Server 2008 as:
CREATE PROCEDURE viewPosts
AS
SELECT * FROM dbo.Post
Now, I have no idea how to use it in controller's action, I have a database object which is:
entities db = new entities();
Kindly tell me how to use stored procedure with this database object in Entity Framework.
For Details check this link:
http://www.entityframeworktutorial.net/data-read-using-stored-procedure.aspx
Hope this will help you.
See article about 30% in:
In the designer, right click on the entity and select Stored Procedure mapping.
Click and then click the drop down arrow that appears. This exposes the list of all Functions found in the DB metadata.
Select Procedure from the list. The designer will do its best job of matching the stored procedure’s parameters with the entity properties using the names. In this case, since all of the property names match the parameter names, it maps every one correctly so you don’t need to make any changes. Note: The designer is not able to automatically detect the name of the field being returned.
Under the Result Column Bindings section, click and enter variable name. The designer should automatically select the entity key property for this final mapping.
The following code is what I use to initialize the stored procedure, then obtain the result into variable returnedResult, which in this case is the record id of a newly created record.
SqlParameter paramResult = new SqlParameter("#Result", -1);
paramResult.Direction = System.Data.ParameterDirection.Output;
var addParameters = new List<SqlParameter>
{
new SqlParameter("#JobID", EvalModel.JobID),
new SqlParameter("#SafetyEvaluator", EvalModel.SafetyEvaluator),
new SqlParameter("#EvaluationGuid", EvalModel.EvaluationGuid),
new SqlParameter("#EvalType", EvalModel.EvalType),
new SqlParameter("#Completion", EvalModel.Completion),
new SqlParameter("#ManPower", EvalModel.ManPower),
new SqlParameter("#EDate", EvalModel.EDate),
new SqlParameter("#CreateDate", EvalModel.CreateDate),
new SqlParameter("#Deficiency", EvalModel.Deficiency.HasValue ? EvalModel.Deficiency.Value : 0),
new SqlParameter("#DeficiencyComment", EvalModel.DeficiencyComment != null ? EvalModel.DeficiencyComment : ""),
new SqlParameter("#Traffic", EvalModel.Traffic.HasValue ? EvalModel.Traffic.Value : 0),
paramResult
};
// Stored procedure name is AddEval
context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("AddEval #JobID, #SafetyEvaluator, #EvaluationGuid, #EvalType, #Completion, #ManPower, #EDate, #CreateDate, #Deficiency, #DeficiencyComment, #Traffic, #Result OUTPUT", addParameters.ToArray());
var returnedResult = paramResult.Value;
NewEvaluationID = Convert.ToInt32(returnedResult);

DataTableMapping using adapter.FillSchema method applied on a Stored Procedure

this is a method i was reading about #MSDN ,
my question is if for an example i would like to use it on a stored procedure
with the fact that the query of that stored procedure is already specifying columns to select from the table like following :
SELECT Columnsome, columnother, , , , ...FROM thisSQLdbTable
though i would like to implement the approach of that specific method , it seems very advanced from a little research i have made on
"the best way" available to extract data from SQL Server into Asp.net DataTable.
public static DataTable GetCustomerData(string dataSetName,
string connectionString)
{
DataTable table = new DataTable(dataSetName);
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
{
SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(
"SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, ContactName FROM dbo.Customers", connection);
DataTableMapping mapping = adapter.TableMappings.Add("Table", "Customers");
mapping.ColumnMappings.Add("CompanyName", "Name");
mapping.ColumnMappings.Add("ContactName", "Contact");
connection.Open();
adapter.FillSchema(table, SchemaType.Mapped);
adapter.Fill(table);
return table;
}
}
or is it not the method to use if i am querying via SP that specifies the selected column
i could actually drop that stored procedure if it is not requiered to select /specify columns
the stored procedure is doing a specific calculation and updates the table with results of calculation then i am switching it's "MODE" to select results from the table that was updated.
what i did is recyceling (; giving it a parameter (bit type)
stored procedure then asks for the value of supplied bool / bit Parameter,
if its is status true it updates (doing its original task it was made for)
if its false its doing a select oporation so i am using it as i would with 2 separated commands
but now that i have search for a better way to extract data from db into a Data table
i give up on the two way SP and i will make a selection via the exaple above if they're not intended to be used thogether as with my current SP that does preselection when servs the GetCustomersData() above.
So the question is do i need to let the function to make the selection or can i serve it with my sp ready made selection to implemet it with GetCustomersData() in the way that it will only do rest of task and only mapp the columns that was preselected
Still a bit confused on your actual requirement but here goes:
I See you are using a direct query in your C# code, 'best way' would be to make a SP out of it then say:
SqlCommand command = conn.CreateCommand();
SqlDataAdapter sqlAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(command);
command.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;
command.CommandText = "sp_GetCustomerData";
Then after you have added parameters if needed do:
conn.Open();
sqlAdapter.Fill(dtResult);
conn.Close();
Where dtResult is Datatable.
So you do not need to do any mapping in this case, and since you are using a SP from the Database it will work faster than your direct query and you can change the query logic any time without the need of re deploying your code.
Stored procedures are perfectly valid in this use case. however, if you want more of a properly mapped table, you have several options, some of which go beyond the use of DataTables.
You can use strongly typed DataSets or perhaps use an ORM (object relational mapper).
ref: Typed Datasets: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/esbykkzb(v=vs.71).aspx
ref: What is an ORM : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping
EXAMPLES OF ORM'S
ref: Entity Framework : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx
ref: NHibernate: http://nhforge.org/

How to return multi-table join value from BLL

This question is regarding the ASP.NET webservice that i am creating using the DAL-BLL architecture for my final school project.
I have a stored procedure, which is a select query with an inner join for 2 tables. Hence the stored procedure returns multi-table value. One of my DAL tableAdapter methods accesses this stored procedure. How do i retrieve the return value in the BLL? Do i have to create a class structure similar to the one supposed to be returned by the stored proc? or is there a direct way to achieve the same? Help greatly appreciated. Please let me know if someone needs code applet to get a better understanding. Thanks
Here is some more information:
I am using the SQL dataset (.xsd) in DAL. So i have a datatable called "Insurance", which has a tableAdapter. One of the queries in the adapter references to a stored procedure, which has an inner join. So my SP looks like:
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.GetInsurancesPaged
(
#startRowIndex int,
#maximumRows int,
#patientID int
)
AS
select * from
(
SELECT Insurance.insuranceID, Insurance.memberID, Insurance.groupID, Insurance.accountType, Insurance.comments, Insurance.patient, Insurance.company, InsuranceCompany.companyID, InsuranceCompany.companyName, InsuranceCompany.address, InsuranceCompany.phone, InsuranceCompany.fax, ROW_NUMBER() over (order by Insurance.dateModified DESC) as ROWRANK
FROM Insurance INNER JOIN InsuranceCompany ON Insurance.company = InsuranceCompany.companyID
WHERE Insurance.patient = #patientID
)
AS DataWithRowNumbers
WHERE ROWRANK > #startRowIndex AND ROWRANK <= (#startRowIndex + #maximumRows)
So this SP returns a datatable which will be a combination of the 2 tables in the inner join. Please correct me if i am wrong.
Now in my BLL, i have:
[System.ComponentModel.DataObjectMethodAttribute(System.ComponentModel.DataObjectMethodType.Select, true)]
public mySys.InsuranceDataTable GetInsurancesPaged(int startRowIndex, int maximumRows, int patientID)
{
return insAdapter.GetInsurancesPaged(startRowIndex, maximumRows, patientID);
}
where insAdapter is an instance of insuranceTableAdapter
This gives an error on execution. I can execute the SP successfully, so i think the problem is only bcz i am trying to return a wrong datatable from the BLL.
Please help me solve this.
If using ADO .Net dataset. The wizard will definetly create a table for the same. now from the dataaccess layer, do the following steps
1. Create a object of dataset. (DLL)
Private YourCustomeDataSetDatatable DataAccess()
{
YourCustomDataSet ds = new YourCustomDataSet(); // also called strongly typed dataset
YourCustomeDataSetDatatable dt = ds.YourCustomeDataSetDatatable ()
YourCustomeDataSetTableAdapter ta = new ds.YourCustomeDataSetTableAdapter (); // table adapter that will be invoked
ta.Fill(dt); // or if you have set to return only you can also use GetData()
}
2. Now in business layer
Private YourCustomeDataSetDatatable DataAccess()
{
// create a object of DLL.
MyDAL myDal = new MyDAL ();
return myDal.DataAccess();
}
Catch this on your UI page by following the creating object of BLL and call the method. Here in BLL you can also do various operations to lowered the codes in you ui and keeping it clean from various manipulations.
Found a solution :)
Finally got it working.
I created a new table adapter using the Dataset designer, and called the SP as one of the queries there. The datatable thus created, has all the fields (from Insurance and InsuranceCompany) included. Now, ASP.NET can detect that the return type is the newly created datatable.
Works like a charm.
If there is a better way to solve this, please comment.
Thank you all for your time.

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