The document discusses the SqlConnection and SqlCommand objects in .NET for interacting with a SQL database. The SqlConnection represents a connection to a database and must be instantiated before performing any operations. The SqlCommand allows specifying query and non-query commands to perform operations like selecting, inserting, updating, and deleting data. Methods like ExecuteReader, ExecuteNonQuery, and ExecuteScalar are used to execute queries and commands.

1. The SqlConnection Object

2. • The first thing you will need to do when
interacting with a data base is to create a
connection.

3. Creating a SqlConnection Object
• A SqlConnection is an object,
• SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(
"Data Source=(local);Initial
Catalog=Northwind;Integrated
Security=SSPI");
• SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(
"Data Source=DatabaseServer;Initial
Catalog=Northwind;User
ID=YourUserID;Password=YourPassword");

4. Using a SqlConnection
• Instantiate the SqlConnection.
• Open the connection.
• Pass the connection to other ADO.NET
objects.
• Perform database operations with the other
ADO.NET objects.
• Close the connection.

5. The SqlCommand Object
• A SqlCommand object allows you to specify
what type of interaction you want to perform
with a database.
• SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select
CategoryName from Categories", conn);

6. • // 1. Instantiate a new command with a query
and connection
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select
CategoryName from Categories", conn);
// 2. Call Execute reader to get query results
SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

7. Inserting Data
• To insert data into a database, use the
ExecuteNonQuery method of the
SqlCommand object.

8. // prepare command string
• string insertString = @"
insert into Categories
(CategoryName, Description)
values ('Miscellaneous', 'Whatever doesn''t
fit elsewhere')"

9. • // 1. Instantiate a new command with a query
and connection
SqlCommand cmd
= new SqlCommand(insertString, conn);
// 2. Call ExecuteNonQuery to send command
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

10. Updating Data
• // prepare command string
string updateString = @"
update Categories
set CategoryName = 'Other'
where CategoryName = 'Miscellaneous'";

11. • // 1. Instantiate a new command with
command text only
SqlCommand cmd
= new SqlCommand(updateString);
// 2. Set the Connection property
cmd.Connection = conn;
// 3. Call ExecuteNonQuery to send command
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

12. Deleting Data
• // prepare command string
string deleteString = @"
delete from Categories
where CategoryName = 'Other'";

13. • // 1. Instantiate a new command
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
// 2. Set the CommandText property
cmd.CommandText = deleteString;
// 3. Set the Connection property
cmd.Connection = conn;
// 4. Call ExecuteNonQuery to send command
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

14. Getting Single values
• Sometimes all you need from a database is a
single value, which could be a
count, sum, average, or other aggregated
value from a data set.

15. • // 1. Instantiate a new command
SqlCommand cmd
= new SqlCommand("select count(*) from
Categories", conn);
// 2. Call ExecuteNonQuery to send command
int count = (int)cmd.ExecuteScalar();