SQL - User input in query

Question

I have this. \"Detail all films shown by the club between any two given dates, inputted by the user. For example a club member must be able to input a start date and an end

Answer 1

Here's the code for a stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE SomeName(@UserStart DATETIME, @UserEnd DATETIME) 
AS BEGIN

SELECT somestuff
FROM sometable
WHERE somedate BETWEEN @UserStart AND @UserEnd

END

Answer 2

@Kyle93 - Looking at your WHERE Clause:

WHERE sdate = '&userstart' AND fdate = '&userend'

This will only get you Films that had a sdate(Start Date?) equal to the date value entered. You might want to use Greater than, Less Than operators....

Such as:

WHERE sdate <= '&userend' AND fdate >= '&userstart'

(Note comparing sdate to UserEnd Date to make sure Film Showing started EARLIER than the UserEnd Date...etc)

This way - when a show starts OR ends within the date range - it will be selected.

Answer 3

Are you familiar at all with LINQ? It's a way to make db calls from c#.

-- I would handle this with HTML as you thought, and use Javascript/Ajax to reference c# code that uses LINQ for db calls. Might be a bit complicated however, if you're not familiar with much of that. I can recommend good tutorials if interested tho.