How to: Access an External Data Source From a UDF

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10/16/2013

This example shows how to access an external database from a user-defined function (UDF).

Example

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.Udf;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Web;
using System.Security.Principal;

namespace DatabaseAccessUdfTest1
{
    [UdfClass]
    public class
    {
        [UdfMethod(IsVolatile=true)]
        public string GetRowCount()
        {
            try
            {
                SqlConnection sqlConnection = new SqlConnection
                   ("Data Source=myDatabaseServer002;Initial 
                   Catalog=northwind;Integrated Security=SSPI;");
                SqlCommand sqlCommand = new SqlCommand("SELECT COUNT(*) 
                    FROM Customers", sqlConnection);
                sqlConnection.Open();
                string rowCount = (string)sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar();
                sqlConnection.Close();
                return (rowCount);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                return (e.ToString());
            }
        }

        [UdfMethod(IsVolatile=true)]
        public string GetSqlUserName()
        {
            try
            {
                SqlConnection sqlConnection = new SqlConnection("Data 
                    Source= myDatabaseServer003;Initial 
                    Catalog=northwind;Integrated Security=SSPI;");
                SqlCommand sqlCommand = new SqlCommand("SELECT 
                    CURRENT_USER", sqlConnection);

                sqlConnection.Open();
                string userName = (string)sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar();
                sqlConnection.Close();
                return (userName);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                return (e.ToString());
            }
        }

        [UdfMethod(ReturnsPersonalInformation=true)]
        public string GetUserName()
        {
            return 
              (System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name);
        }

        [UdfMethod(ReturnsPersonalInformation=true)]
        public string GetUserAuthenticationType()
        {
            return 
(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.AuthenticationType);
        }
    }
}

How to: Access an External Data Source From a UDF

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