Executes an SQL statement against the Connection object of a .NET Framework data provider, and returns the number of rows affected.
Assembly: System.Data (in System.Data.dll)
The connection does not exist.
The connection is not open.
You can use the to perform catalog operations (for example, querying the structure of a database or creating database objects such as tables), or to change the data in a database without using a DataSet by executing UPDATE, INSERT, or DELETE statements.
Although the does not return any rows, any output parameters or return values mapped to parameters are populated with data.
For UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements, the return value is the number of rows affected by the command. For all other types of statements, the return value is -1.
The following example creates an instance of the derived class, OleDbCommand, and then executes it. To accomplish this, the method is passed a string that is a SQL SELECT statement and a string to use to connect to the data source.
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.