Build Where Clause Dynamically in Ado.net C#

Question

I will be taking in around 1000 records at a given time and I have to determine if they are existing records or new records.

If they are existing I have to update th

Answer 1

I feel kinda silly writing this answer, because I think that you should be able to put the pieces together a complete answer from other posts - but this is not an exact duplicate of either of the questions I have in mind.

There already are questions and answers in Stackoverflow dealing with this issue - however in my search I only found answers that are not thread safe, and most of them are using merge.

There are different questions and answers I can refer you to such as my answer to Adding multiple parameterized variables to a database in c# where you can see how to work with table valued parameters on c#, and to Aaron Bertrand's answer to Using a if condition in an insert SQL Server where you can see how to create a safe upsert - however I didn't find any answer that covers this completely - so here you go:

First you need to create a user defined table type in your database:

CERATE TYPE MyTableType AS TABLE
(
     Column1 int NOT NULL,
     Column2 int NOT NULL,
     Column3 int NOT NULL,
     -- rest of the columns in your table goes here
     PRIMARY KEY (Column1, Column2, Column3)
)

Then, you create the stored procedure:

CREATE stp_UpsertMyTable
(
    @MyTableType dbo.MyTableType readonly -- table valued parameters must be readonly
)
AS

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE;

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

UPDATE t 
SET t.column4 = tvp.column4,
    t.column5 = tvp.column5 -- and so on for all columns that are not part of the key
FROM dbo.MyTable AS t
INNER JOIN @MyTableType AS tvp
    ON t.Column1 = tvp.Column1
    AND t.Column2 = tvp.Column2
    AND t.Column3 = tvp.Column3;

 -- Note: <ColumnsList> should be replaced with the actual columns in the table
INSERT dbo.MyTable(<ColumnsList>)
  SELECT <ColumnsList>
  FROM @MyTableType AS tvp
  WHERE NOT EXISTS
  (
    SELECT 1 FROM dbo.MyTable t
    WHERE t.Column1 = tvp.Column1
    AND t.Column2 = tvp.Column2
    AND t.Column3 = tvp.Column3
  );

COMMIT TRANSACTION;

GO

Then, the c# part is simple:

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("Column1", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Column2", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Column3", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Column4", typeof(string));
dt.Columns.Add("Column5", typeof(string));

// Fill your data table here

using (var con = new SqlConnection("ConnectionString"))
{
    using(var cmd = new SqlCommand("stp_UpsertMyTable", con))
    {
        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
        cmd.Parameters.Add("@MyTable", SqlDbType.Structured).Value = dt;
        con.Open();
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
    }
}

Now you have a complete and safe upsert using a table valued parameter with only one round trip between c# and sql server.

Answer 2

I can only help you to write query for your request

        var recordCount = 1000;
        var query = "SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE";
        for (var i = 1; i < recordCount - 2; i += 3)
        {
            query += " (columnA = " + i + " and ColumnB = " + (i + 1) + " and ColumnC = " + (i + 2) + ") or ";
        }