Search ability is too limited in my VB 2008/ SQL Server program
Is there any thing I can do to create a search of a database table that wil look into the entire cell instaed of just the first word in the cell? Right now it will search a single column and only the first word in each cell for a perfect match.
If this question is like asking someone to write a program for me, then I would be happy if you could just point me in the right direction; like a book or video. I got the info for my current seach ability from Beth Massi (blogs.msdn), and I must admit, it works great.
Here is some VB code in the Windows form.
Private Sub Search_Item_a_descriptionT
Try
Me.CustomerOrdersTableAdap
Catch ex As System.Exception
System.Windows.Forms.Messa
End Try
End Sub
This code in from the table adapter:
SQL Select statement Bla Bla Bla And at the end, I put the following:
WHERE (Item_a_description LIKE @Item_a_description + '%')
I did this for a number of columns and they all work, but this is limited and combersome. Thank you for any help.
If this question is like asking someone to write a program for me, then I would be happy if you could just point me in the right direction; like a book or video. I got the info for my current seach ability from Beth Massi (blogs.msdn), and I must admit, it works great.
Here is some VB code in the Windows form.
Private Sub Search_Item_a_descriptionT
Try
Me.CustomerOrdersTableAdap
Catch ex As System.Exception
System.Windows.Forms.Messa
End Try
End Sub
This code in from the table adapter:
SQL Select statement Bla Bla Bla And at the end, I put the following:
WHERE (Item_a_description LIKE @Item_a_description + '%')
I did this for a number of columns and they all work, but this is limited and combersome. Thank you for any help.
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This code did not work, but... I think your code might work if I have the correct code on the Windows for to correspond with the table adapter code you gave me. Also; where you have Value or Field1 -- should I replace either of those with "Item_a_description" or another column name?
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Just correcting a typo------- Windows form
This code did not work, but... I think your code might work if I have the correct code on the Windows form to correspond with the table adapter code you gave me. Also; where you have Value or Field1 -- should I replace either of those with "Item_a_description" or another column name?
This code did not work, but... I think your code might work if I have the correct code on the Windows form to correspond with the table adapter code you gave me. Also; where you have Value or Field1 -- should I replace either of those with "Item_a_description" or another column name?
Yes, my mistake. I forgot to tell you to replace FieldX and Value by your own variable and fields.
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Thank you all for your help. I used bits and pieces of all the comments and it is working well. Thanks again.
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Thank you, I will test this and get back to you shortly. -- Jampost