Re: Custom select string for Expressions?

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 12:32:18 EST

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    Hi Tobias,

    Unfortunately mixing expressions and aggregate syntax is not
    possible. You'd have to use SQLTemplate.

    Andrus

    On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Tobias SCHOESSLER wrote:

    >
    > I like cayenne expressions a lot, instead of writing complex joins
    > in sql
    > these path expressions are very handy. Though I haven't found a way to
    > express things I use to have in the SELECT part of an SQL
    > statement. When I
    > need distinct values, aggregations. how can I do things like SELECT
    > DISTINCT ... SUM(), etc.
    >
    > Ideally I would like to use path Expression to define my select but
    > apply
    > my own SELECT string for the execution. Is that possible?
    >
    > thanks
    >
    > Tobias
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