Determine A Dataset Column Data Type?
Mar 17, 2010I have a dataset and want to know the data type of a specific column. The GetType returns datacolumn not string or integer etc.iggy!
View 2 RepliesI have a dataset and want to know the data type of a specific column. The GetType returns datacolumn not string or integer etc.iggy!
View 2 RepliesI need to read data from an Excel sheet as part of a data conversion. Certain columns contain mostly numeric data but may contain some alphanumeric data somewhere in the excel sheet. The problem is, my conversion sees the alphanumeric values as null (or blank. Using the .ToString() method returns ""). To connect to Excel, I'm creating an oledb connection, creating an OleDbDataAdapter, then filling a DataSet with the adapter.
Here's the VB code for connecting:
private _oleadpt As OleDbDataAdapter
private _oleconnection As New OleDbConnection
Dim olecomm As OleDbCommand
'_database comes from a settings file and is the full path to an excel document
Dim connstring As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & _database & ";
Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;"""
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I think the data adapter is determining the datatype for the columns based on the first however-many rows it looks at. It decides the columns with numbers are numeric which is the start of my problem. Changing the formatting of the column in Excel doesn't seem to affect the datatypes in my data set. Is there a way to tell the dataadapter or dataset what type of data to use for a column? Or should I try to cast the data in my SQL statement?
how do you determine cell type of a column?
View 7 RepliesFor each column in data table i want to add parameter with same data type as column data type. But looks it's not that simple.
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand
Dim dType As New System.Data.SqlDbType
For Each cl As DataColumn In DataTable1.Columns
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How can I do this?
i am trying to copy data from a standard Dataset to a Type Dataset (XSD) of same table structure. i want to use Automapper to do that one. So how can i do that using automapper?
View 1 RepliesI have a property active to indicate status of an employee. Along with all the details, i extract the details from an employee table into a dataset, but however i am not able to get the value present in active as i get an invalid cast exception.
This is the property declaration.
CODE:
Reading bit type sql server db column from dataset
View 3 RepliesThis is my programs complete code, the only problem is i want to fix the amount of decimal places that show up in my gridview. The problem is if i do this on the asp side the location of the column gets thrown off and the column is duplicated. I figured if i just remade the table on the asp side it would work only problem is if i remove the sql for that particular column the asp side column cannot get data.
Imports System.Data.Sql
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data
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I want to insert/edit date automatically in the DateCreated column and the SystemUser column to track the date and user who entered ther details into a dataset. I am using data bindingsource to bind controls to the dataset
View 3 RepliesI am a beginner to VB.net. Still learning and have a lot to learn.I am confuse on dataset and binding source.I want to update the columns in the current dataset.
I have a listbox to reorder the sequence.Once those are reordered, the sequence number should be wrote back to the "Sequence" column in the dataset.
After pointing to the current row in the binding source, I don't know how to write back to the column.[code]...
I have a table with two columns (id and number1). How can i get from the datagrid or the dataset the data of one column (number1) in one variable?
View 7 RepliesI know this has to be a very simple answer but I seem to be overlooking it. I have an Access database that I have conected to and have created a DataSet. The DataSet consists of one table with several rows and a bunch of columns. What I am trying to do is get the data for one specific row and column so that I can use this data is some calculations. I can position the row if I need to but I can't figure out how to get the data in the specific column I need.
View 3 Repliesi am getting the xml using readxml method. And then display the data in datagrid. But number type columns comes as string type in the dataset. So when datagrid displays , sortingdatagrid columns is not correct. For example it sorts like this:
Salary
1180
12133
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When setting a DataSet row column to Nothing, like row.Date = Nothing, why does it initialize it to the data type minvalue? In this case a date, that gets set to 0000-01-01. The column is set to allow null etc., and if I don't set the row to anything at all, it will leave the column empty. So why does Nothing act this way?
In C# I would've set it to DbNull, I guess, but I'm a tad green on VB.NET - as you might be able to tell. :)
I am trying to export a dataset to a csv file
VB
Private Sub ExportDatasetToCsv(ByVal MyDataSet As DataSet)
Dim str As New StringBuilder
For Each dr As DataRow In MyDataSet
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I am getting an error on this line: For Each dr As DataRow In MyDataSet The error is Expression is of type 'System.Data.DataSet', which is not a collection type.
I have a gridview loaded with data from my database and a gridview swapping function which after exchanging data between rows with a column call "Priority", I want to save these changes back to my database. Only the "Priority" column value will be change, how do I update only that Column of my dataset table to my SQL database?
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The user enters information into a textbox and I would like to reflect these changes on the database. So say there is a value of 50 in the textbox and the user just deletes this and it is now "". When I try to update the database I receive an error as it expects a type of double. However, simple appending a 0 here when a value of "" is encountered will not work for me as I have a universal function to handle all of my updating needs. How would I go about determining the type of field I am dealing with (int, double, varchar) of the data table which I currently have in memory
View 3 RepliesI've made a dataset using the dataset designer, and I'm trying to add a column to reflect changes made to the database (added a column, nothing fancy). Is there a way to 'refresh' the dataset schema from the datasource without deleting my adapter (and all the methods and queries I've created)?
View 2 RepliesI am writing validation for a datagridview which may open a number of different tables (dependant on what the user selects). The idea is that the user will select a lookup table to edit or add too, the datagridview opens (via a binding source) and populates itself with a specific table's data.
The user can then edit the data in the rows and when they are happy update the dataset which in turn updates the database table.
This all works except there is no validation per say prior to the update. As the datagrid loads a different table dynamically I cannot predetermine table column names (without writing a mass of hard coded values) so I would rather go by the datatype of the column since the tables all follow a similar format.[code]...
i am having this problem for quite some time now and cannot figure out the solution..
i have a productid that i get as a result of sql query. The data type of productid in database is int
Dim scheduleid As Integer
cmd.CommandText = "Insert into DeploymentSchedules (scheduleName) values('Schedule');select Scope_Identity();"
scheduleid = cmd.ExecuteScalar()
Now when i want to insert it into another table .
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I am using VS 2008, asp.net and VB coding.Using Grid View, How can I access the data of the selected row if the column type is check box?The following line is working fine with text, date, number,lbltest.Text = GridViewRVs.SelectedRow.Cells(7).Text but the problem is that I need to access a checkbox..
View 1 RepliesI want Too Know how Can i Fill THat values in the sql Column my Sql Data type is Integer Can i fill any SIGN Valuse like (122,123)(123+123)(321-123)(485;456)(301>908) in these Values Can i use any one in sql column and the column data type is Integer.
View 6 RepliesHow i can change data grid view column type runtime. like i want to make a coloumn checkbox but runtime.
View 8 RepliesI have a table named fec in which i hv column named EndDt having Date/Time Data type.Now i want to display those records in my report which have EndDt less than Date i pick from DateTimePicker and month is current month.Private Sub DtpDefault_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DtpDefault.ValueChanged
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i would like to ask how do I subtract a value from my column Quantity(data type is integer = 18) in my inventory table if a customer will want to have 2 orders and of course 18 - 2 will be 16. how will i do this?
View 17 RepliesI am trying to read some data from an Excel 8.0 worksheet using OLEDB thusly:(Warning - contains curly braces)
Code:
DbProviderFactory factory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory("System.Data.OleDb");
using (DbConnection connection = factory.CreateConnection())
{
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The problem is that for some columns it sets the data type to be Double even though the spreadsheet column format is "Text" and teh column contains non-numeric data. Then when it gets to that cell it returns DBNull instead of the text value.
I have a dataset that is filled by a tableadapter and what I'm trying to do is to figure out how to loop through all of the rows in my dataset and determine when someone has edited/changed the row and then to post those changes back to my database.
View 1 RepliesI have a dataset that I'm trying to loop through to be able to save any changes made to that dataset and update my database doing so. Can anyone offer any code to do that effectively?
View 1 RepliesI'm writing a help application for the Customer support team at my company to help agents ask better questions when customers report problems. In it, I've got a SQL database that contains all the products, topics, and questions. The layout is similar to the following:
Products Table:
Product_ID Product Name:
Topics Table:
Topic_ID Product_ID Topic
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I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but I basically need to do the equivalent to the following SQL statement: "SELECT PRODUCT_ID FROM Products WHERE PRODUCT_Name = LstProducts.SelectedValue"
I have a function in VS2008 VB.NET that creates a dataset and reads field values from that were loaded from a SQL Server 2008 database tables. The tables are from varied sources and in some cases particular column/field names are different. Some use a long name; others use a short name. I need to determine whether a short name or a long name is being used.Pseudo code:If row("ShortName") Exists then ReadDataFrom r("ShortName").ToStringElse ReadDataFrom r("LongName").ToStringEnd If
How would I determine if a particular column name exist in a dataset or datarow?