Problem with WHERE columnName = Data in MySQL query in C#

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Published on 2010-05-04T02:21:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 2:28 UTC
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I have a C# webservice on a Windows Server that I am interfacing with on a linux server with PHP. The PHP grabs information from the database and then the page offers a "more information" button which then calls the webservice and passes in the name field of the record as a parameter. So i am using a WHERE statement in my query so I only pull the extra fields for that record. I am getting the error:

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException:Invalid column name '42'

Where 42 is the value from the name field from the database.

my query is

string selectStr = "SELECT name, castNotes, triviaNotes FROM tableName WHERE name =\"" + show + "\"";

I do not know if it is a problem with my query or something is wrong with the database, but here is the rest of my code for reference.

NOTE: this all works perfectly when I grab all of the records, but I only want to grab the record that I ask my webservice for.

public class ktvService  : System.Web.Services.WebService {

[WebMethod]
public string moreInfo(string show) {

    string connectionStr = "MyConnectionString";
    string selectStr = "SELECT name, castNotes, triviaNotes FROM tableName WHERE name =\"" + show + "\"";

    SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionStr);
    SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(selectStr, conn);
    DataSet ds = new DataSet();
    da.Fill(ds, "tableName");
    DataTable dt = ds.Tables["tableName"];

    DataRow theShow = dt.Rows[0];
    string response = "Name: " + theShow["name"].ToString() + "Cast: " + theShow["castNotes"].ToString() + " Trivia: " + theShow["triviaNotes"].ToString();

    return response;

} 

}

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