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Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding
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Visual Basic® .NET Power Coding

by Paul Kimmel
July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
16h 35m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Sorting and Filtering a DataSet

If you know how to write SQL, you know that you can sort and filter data with ORDER BY and WHERE clauses. However, this approach requires that you requery the database each time the view changes. Such requerying is an expensive and impractical operation, especially when you have thousands of simultaneous users and the data has already been queried.

With ADO.NET you have better alternatives. You can read data into a DataSet and change the view and order of the data without requerying the database. You can change the order and rows with the DataView.RowFilter and Sort properties or with the DataTable.Select method. The subsections that follow contain examples of each of these.

Filtering and Sorting a DataView

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