Pulling Data into VB From SQL Function

Hello,

I am having a problem that I can't solve and would appreciate any help you can offer.

I have a table in my SQL DB that contains :

- ID
- Date From
- Date To

I then have a SQL function that pulls out the Start Date (See code below)

Code:

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CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_YearBreakdownDateFrom (@Date datetime)

RETURNS char(10)
AS
BEGIN
  DECLARE        @RetVal datetime
  DECLARE        @ConvertedDate char(10)
  SET @RetVal = (SELECT  DateFrom
  FROM      dbo.tbl_YearBreakdown
  WHERE    (DateFrom <= CONVERT(DATETIME, @Date, 103)) AND
            (DateTo >= CONVERT(DATETIME, @Date, 103)))

  SET @ConvertedDate = CONVERT(Char(10), @RetVal, 103)
  RETURN @ConvertedDate
END

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NB: The reason for converting the date to a char(10) was because initially I was calling this function from a stored procedure and required the date to be passed in a certain format.


In my VB.NET app I need to call this function and get the Start Date to populate a text box on my form.
However, I don't know how to do this as in the past I've always just called stored procedures which have in turn returned the data from the functions.

Can anyone help me please ?

Thanks in advance

You can call it using a select statement


SELECT DateFrom
FROM dbo.tbl_YearBreakdown
WHERE (DateFrom <= CONVERT(DATETIME, @Date, 103)) AND
(DateTo >= CONVERT(DATETIME, @Date, 103))


Call using ExecuteScaler on a command object