How do I retrieve the result of an ADO.NET SqlCommand?

Question

Ok either I\'m really tired or really thick at the moment, but I can\'t seem to find the answer for this

I\'m using ASP.NET and I want to find the amount of rows in

Answer 1

You need to open the connection This might work :

SqlConnection sqlConnection1 = new SqlConnection("Your Connection String");
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
SqlDataReader reader;

cmd.CommandText = "select count(*) from topics";
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
cmd.Connection = sqlConnection;
sqlConnection1.Open();

reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
// Data is accessible through the DataReader object here.

sqlConnection1.Close();

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