Not sure why I didn't discover this earlier, but I am trying to update my Database using a storedprocedure and I get an error:

Procedure or Function 'updateMember' expects parameter '@councilPosition', which was not supplied.

"CouncilPosition" is a nullable field, however.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,
Rob

Even if its a nullable field, you have to at least pass NULL into it through the framework. Although I do not know the reason for this.

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Thank you for the quick reply---but how do I get the ObjectDataSource to pass a NULL if the value is empty?

Thanks,
Rob

Unforunately, I can't answer that. While the ObjectDataSource is a great control I still do alot of my database transactions through Paramertized queries and stored procedures that I execute using datareaders and such. However, this post may be of some help to you.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa581779.aspx

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Not really..lol.

I do the same thing--I pass my Gridview Labels through an ObjectDataSource parameter into my own class that has a parameter

Dim knightsDBConn As New SqlConnection(conString)


        Dim sqlString As String = "updateMember"
        Dim sqlCmd As New SqlCommand(sqlString, knightsDBConn)
        sqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userName", userName)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@email", email)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@address", address)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@city", city)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@state", state)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@zip", zip)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@home_phone", home_phone)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@cell_phone", cell_phone)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@password", password)
        sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@councilPosition", councilPosition)

        knightsDBConn.Open()
        sqlCmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
        sqlCmd = Nothing

My problem is how to pass something in "councilPosition" when it is an empty string.

-Rob

As Holmes said to Watson "Thats elementary"!

This is quite like how I do things within my applications so you can try one of 2 things:
1.

If councilPosition.Trim() = "" Then councilPosition = "Null"

2.
If councilPosition.Trim() = "" Then
     sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@councilPosition", DBNull)
Else
     sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@councilPosition", councilPosition)
End If

In this case DBNull is a type and the Parameter *should* allow you to pass it in.

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I'll try again, but what happened is it either (since councilPosition is a string) gave the "string" value as "null" when I tried simply "null"..when I tried passing system.DBNull it said it could not be passed as a parameter (or something like that).

-Rob

Instead of passing DBNull, you should pass DBNull.Value.

As you discovered, setting it to a string of "null" will pass the literal value of the word null to the database, which is not what you want.

Instead:

If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(councilPosition) AndAlso councilPosition.Trim() IsNot String.Empty Then
  sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@councilPosition", councilPosition)
Else
  sqlCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@councilPosition", DBNull.Value)
End If

This code first checks if the string is already null or an empty string. If it isn't, it then calls Trim to see if it's String.Empty after trimming. If that isn't the case either, it means it contains a value and it is passed to the database.

Otherwise, DBNull.Value is passed which represents a null value in the database.

Hope this helps,

Imar
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