asked on 4/7/2017

Help with entity/VB code to get data from multiple tables and set to string

I have 2 tables:

tblTeams (cols are ID, Team, RegionName (this is an int), URL)
and
tblRegions (cols are ID, RegionName)

I want to write some code that first puts every entry of tblRegions into a list
For each item in that list, I want to find each Team and URL from tblTeams where tblRegions.ID = tblTeams.RegionName and add the values to a string.

I have a model setup with the 2 tables and need to do this in VB.NET/Entity. I've gotten so far as to get the first part in a list and cycle through it, but I think I may be overcomplicated things. To help understand, I'm trying to make a dropdown navigation menu where the tblRegions.RegionName are the first level, and the tblTeams data are the submenu where the aforementioned where clause is met.

Honestly if I could just have a string that looked something like...

Region1 TeamR1a R1aURL TeamR1b R1bURL TeamR1c R1cURL Region2 TeamR2a R2aURL TeamR2b R2bURL Region3 TeamR3a R3aURL

That would actually work for me.

* Entity Framework Core Visual Basic.NET .NET Programming ASP.NET Microsoft SQL Server

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Member_2_1242703

6/20/2017

Nitin Sontakke

4/9/2017

I am not TOO sure if i clearly understand this, however, from whatever i understand this is pretty simple. Just one thing which is not clear to me. Do you want an entire result set in one go?

I would bite the chunk in small pieces. If you are proficient at it (very simple, actually) write a scalar function which would return the string you are referring to, something like this:

declare @returnValue varchar(max) = '';
select @returnValue += Team + ' ' + URL + ' '
from tblTeams
where RegionName = @RegionName;

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where @RegionName will be passed as a parameter. Issue resolved for the 1 row in the table.

Should you need entire result set in one use following, assuming above query is in function fnGetTeams:

select RegionName, t.ReturnValue
from tblRegions r
outer apply [dbo].[fnGetTeams](r.RegionName) t

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Please give more meaningful names.

Member_2_1242703

4/10/2017

ASKER

Step 1. Pull all ID from tblRegions
Step 2. Iterate through each result from step1, pull all Team and URL from tblTeams where tblTeams.RegionName = the ID being iterated through
Step 3. Add the values of Team and URL from step 2 to a string (i.e. strTest = strTest & teamvalue & urlvalue)

I for sure do NOT want everything in one go. I need to pull all of the regions and then each team associated with said region.
More meaningful...

Northeast
Mets
Yankees
Red Sox
Southwest
Diamondbacks
Dodgers
Southeast
Marlins
Rangers
Braves

Looking for Entity help here, not really SQL syntax. I'm very new to using data models. An example of doing this or something similar is what I'm looking for.