Re: Get the number of FKs

From: Michael Gentry (blacknex..mail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 15:52:20 EST

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    Does that SQL return all of the department PKs you want to delete?

    On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Scott Anderson <sanderso..irvana.com> wrote:
    > How would I build a SQLTemplate to do a query like this one?
    >
    > SELECT DISTINCT department.idx
    > FROM department
    > LEFT JOIN user ON department.idx = user.department_idx
    > WHERE user.idx IS NULL
    >
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Michael Gentry [mailto:blacknex..mail.com]
    >
    >
    > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:34 PM
    > To: use..ayenne.apache.org
    > Subject: Re: Get the number of FKs
    >
    > You are right. I completely misread that. I'd still probably do raw
    > SQL or an SQLTemplate, though.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > /dev/mrg
    >
    > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Mike Kienenberger <mkienen..mail.com>
    > wrote:
    > > Michael, just to clarify, he doesn't want to work with Employees. He
    >
    > > wants to work with Departments. Scott wants to know how to do this
    > > without pulling in the Employee records.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > On 3/6/08, Michael Gentry <blacknex..mail.com> wrote:
    > > > If it is mandatory, it sounds like these records were created
    > > outside > of Cayenne (they are legacy, testing, etc records)? If
    > > that is the > case, the easiest thing to do is to just issue an SQL
    > > command directly > to the database (using whatever normal SQL
    > command you use).
    > > > Something like:
    > > >
    > > > delete from employee where departmentFK is null; > > If it is
    > > something that is happening regularly, though, and you want > to be
    > > able to nuke them from within your Cayenne application, you can >
    > > issue raw SQL to do the trick, too:
    > > >
    > > > DataContext dataContext = DataContext.createDataContext(); >
    > > SQLTemplate sqlQuery = new SQLTemplate(Customer.class, "delete from >
    >
    > > employee where departmentFK is null"); >
    > > dataContext.performNonSelectingQuery(sqlQuery);
    > > >
    > > > With this code, though, be careful that you don't have any of
    > > those > dangling employees in memory, as this totally bypasses the
    > > Cayenne > object graph.
    > > >
    > > > /dev/mrg
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Scott Anderson
    > <sanderso..irvana.com> wrote:
    > > > > Employee.Department is mandatory; I want to search for and
    > > delete rogue > > departments.
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > > -----Original Message-----
    > > > > From: Michael Gentry [mailto:blacknex..mail.com] > > Sent:
    > > Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:08 PM > > To: use..ayenne.apache.org >
    >
    > > > Subject: Re: Get the number of FKs > > > > It seems you mainly
    >
    > > want a list of employees who are not in a > > department, so doing
    > > a fetch on Employee where "department = null"
    > > > > might work (I'm not positive I've ever tried this, but it seems
    >
    > > logical > > to me).
    > > > >
    > > > > /dev/mrg
    > > > >
    > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Scott Anderson
    > > <sanderso..irvana.com> > > wrote:
    > > > > > I've got a one-to-many relationship (employees belong to a >
    >
    > > > > department), and I'd like to search for departments that have no
    >
    > > > > employees.
    > > > > > Currently, I have something like:
    > > > > >
    > > > > > foreach(dept : departments) {
    > > > > > if(dept.getEmployees().size() == 0)
    > > > > > context.deleteObject(dept);
    > > > > > }
    > > > > >
    > > > > > When I do this, it has the effect of telling Cayenne to
    > > fetch data > > > rows for every employee in the database; this
    > > will not scale well. Is > > > > > there any way I can get the
    > > size of the array without doing a custom > > > SELECT query?
    > > > > >
    > > > >
    > > >
    > >
    >



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