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Listing 9.8 - CountMoviesInCategory

Illustrates how to execute a SQL stored procedure.

Listing 9.8 - CountMoviesInCategory.sql
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CREATE PROCEDURE CountMoviesInCategory
AS
SELECT Name As Category, Count(*) As Count
FROM Movies
INNER JOIN MovieCategories
ON CategoryId = MovieCategories.Id
GROUP BY Name

The following page uses the SQL stored procedure to get a count of records.

Listing 9.9 - ShowMovieCount.aspx (C#)
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<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <style type="text/css">
        .gridView
        {
            margin:0px auto;
            border:solid 4px black;
            background-color:white;
        }
        .gridView td, .gridView th
        {
            padding:20px;
        }
        html
        {
            background-color:silver;
            font-family:Georgia, Serif;
        }
    </style>
    <title>Show Movie Count</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    
    <asp:GridView
        id="grdMovies"
        DataSourceID="srcMovies"
        CssClass="gridView"
        Runat="server" />
        
    <asp:SqlDataSource
        id="srcMovies"
        SelectCommand="CountMoviesInCategory"
        SelectCommandType="StoredProcedure"
        ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Movies %>"
        Runat="server" />
    
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>