Parsing Your SQL Statement–A Better Way
Now that we’ve seen the program work with manually creating the SQL statements let’s look at a quick procedure to parse the SQL statement and create the parameters for us. Of course you could use the CommandBuilder object, but that would be too easy—we are programmers after all.
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As it turns out, SQL statements are well formed and have a very predictable pattern. This makes parsing them relatively easy. If you ...
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