How to create a query in Visual Studio 2013 using Visual Basic - vb.net

Question

I have the following code and through debugging the problem begins at the While loop. I am trying to retrieve information from 2 tables and insert it into the table created. The information is not being inserted into the table and I am getting blank rows.
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Public Class RouteToCruise
Private Sub RouteToCruise_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
Private Sub Route_Btn_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Route_Btn.Click
Dim row As String
Dim connectString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=M:\ICT-Group-Project\DeepBlueProject\DeepBlueProject\DeepBlueTables.mdb"
Dim cn As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection(connectString)
cn.Open()
Dim CruiseQuery As String = "SELECT CruiseID, RouteID FROM Cruise WHERE CruiseID =?"
Dim RouteQuery As String = "SELECT RouteName FROM Route WHERE RouteID =?"
Dim cmd As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand(CruiseQuery, cn)
Dim cmd2 As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand(RouteQuery, cn)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("?", Route_Txt.Text)
Dim reader As OleDbDataReader
reader = cmd.ExecuteReader
'RCTable.Width = Unit.Percentage(90.0)
RCTable.ColumnCount = 2
RCTable.Rows.Add()
RCTable.Columns(0).Name = "CruiseID"
RCTable.Columns(1).Name = "Route"
While reader.Read()
Dim rID As String = reader("RouteID").ToString()
cmd2.Parameters.AddWithValue("?", rID)
Dim reader2 As OleDbDataReader = cmd2.ExecuteReader()
'MsgBox(reader.GetValue(0) & "," & reader.GetValue(1))
row = reader("CruiseID") & "," & reader2("RouteName")
RCTable.Rows.Add(row)
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
reader2.Close()
End While
reader.Close()
cn.Close()
End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

If I understand your tables structure well then you could just run a single query extracting data from the two table and joining them in a new table returned by the query
Dim sql = "SELECT c.CruiseID c.CruiseID & ',' & r.RouteName as Route " & _
"FROM Cruise c INNER JOIN Route r ON c.RouteID = c.RouteID " & _
" WHERE c.CruiseID = #cruiseID"
Dim cmd As OleDbCommand = New OleDbCommand(sql, cn)
cmd.Parameters.Add("#cruiseID", OleDbType.Int).Value = Convert.ToInt32(Route_Txt.Text)
Dim RCTable = new DataTable()
Dim reader = cmd.ExecuteReader()
reader.Load(RCTable)
At this point the RCTable is filled with the data coming from the two tables and selected using the Route_Txt textbox converted to an integer. If the CruiseID field is not a numeric field then you should create the parameter as of type OleDbType.VarWChar and remove the conversion to integer

Answer 2

Try simplifying your query.
Dim CruiseRouteQuery As String = "SELECT C.CruiseID, C.RoutID, R.Routename FROM Cruise C LEFT JOIN Route R ON C.RouteID = R.RoutID WHERE CruiseID =?"
Also, please let us know what errors you are getting.