I'm having a bit trouble with a query in Linq to Entities which I hope someone can shed a light on :-) What I'm trying to do is to create a query that joins three tables.
So far it works, but since the last table I'm trying to join is empty, the result of the query doesn't contain any records. When I remove the last join, it gives me the right results.
My query looks like this:
var query = from p in db.QuizParticipants
join points in db.ParticipantPoints on p.id
equals points.participantId into participantsGroup
from po in participantsGroup
join winners in db.Winners on p.id
equals winners.participantId into winnersGroup
from w in winnersGroup
where p.hasAttended == 1 && p.weeknumber == weeknumber
select new
{
ParticipantId = p.id,
HasAttended = p.hasAttended,
Weeknumber = p.weeknumber,
UmbracoMemberId = p.umbMemberId,
Points = po.points,
HasWonFirstPrize = w.hasWonFirstPrize,
HasWonVoucher = w.hasWonVoucher
};
What I would like is to get some records even if the Winners table is empty or there is no match in it.
Any help/hint on this is greatly appreciated! :-)
Thanks a lot in advance.
/ Bo
If you set these up as related entities instead of doing joins, I think it will be easier to do what you're trying to do.
var query = from p in db.QuizParticipants
where p.hasAttended == 1 && p.weeknumber == weeknumber
select new
{
ParticipantId = p.id,
HasAttended = p.hasAttended,
Weeknumber = p.weeknumber,
UmbracoMemberId = p.umbMemberId,
Points = p.ParticipantPoints.Sum(pts => pts.points),
HasWonFirstPrize = p.Winners.Any(w => w.hasWonFirstPrize),
HasWonVoucher = p.Winners.Any(w => w.hasWonVoucher)
};
This is assuming hasWonFirstPrize and hasWonVoucher are boolean fields, but you can use any aggregate function to get the results you need, such as p.Winners.Any(w => w.hasWonFirstPrize == 1)
I don't use query syntax a lot but I believe you need to change from w in winnersGroup to from w in winnersGroup.DefaultIfEmpty()
Related
I have a LINQ statement I am trying to get right, so maybe going about this all wrong. My objective is to query a table and join in another table to get counts.
Places
ID, Display
ProfilePlaces
ID, PlaceID, Talk, Hear
Basically Places have ProfilePlaces in a one to many relationship. I want to get the number SUM of ProfilePlaces that have Talkand Hear. Talkand Hear are bit fields.
The following gives me a unique list of Places, so I need to add in the Talkand Hear counts.
var counts = from p in db.Places
join pp in db.ProfilePlaces on p.ID equals pp.PlaceID
group new { Place = p } by p.Display;
I thought something like this, but not having any luck
var counts = from p in db.Places
join pp in db.ProfilePlaces on p.ID equals pp.PlaceID
group new { Place = p,
Talk = pp.Count(t => t.Talk == true),
Hear = pp.Count(t => t.Hear == true)
} by p.Display;
Thanks for any help.
You want to do a GROUP JOIN to get the counts for each Place.
var counts2 = from p in places
join pp in profilePlaces on p.ID equals pp.PlaceID into g
select new
{
Place = p,
CountMeet = g.Count(a => a.Meet),
CountTalk = g.Count(a => a.Talk)
};
Here's the documentation on the different joins from MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb311040.aspx
I have the following query to start with:
var query = from p in db.Products
from pc in p.NpProductCategories
where pc.CategoryId == categoryId
select p;
I'm applying some more filtering on it and in the end I want to sort the results:
if (orderBy == ProductSortingEnum.Name)
query = query.OrderBy(x => x.Name);
else
query = query.OrderBy(............);
My big problem (coming from not knowing linq too good) is the ELSE here. How can I sort results by a column that is not in the current result set? I would like to somehow link to another linq query in the orderby. The sorting I'm trying to achive is to link to NpProductVariants query using the ProductId to match between NpProductVariant and Products
and sort by the Price of the NpProductVariant
Assuming you have the relationship set up in the dbml...
For one to one (and many to one):
query = query.OrderBy(p => p.NpProductVariant.Price);
For one to many:
query = query.OrderBy(p => p.NpProductVariants.Select(v => v.Price).Max());
Also:
var query =
from p in db.Products
where p.NpProductCategories.Any(pc => pc.CategoryId == categoryId)
select p;
I think you can hook your Join to your query as long as it is returning the same thing. So maybe something like (I'm not 100 % sure since I haven't tried it):
query = from i1 in query
join i2 in query2 on i1.PropertyToJoin equals i2.PropertyToJoin
orderby i1.OrderProp1, i2.OrderProp2
select i1;
But I think it might be a good idea to check the generated sql so it is still effective.
I wanted to do a paging style table, but NeerDinner example fetches the entire data into a PaggingList type, and I have more than 10 000 rows to be fetched, so I skipped that part.
so I come up with this query
var r = (from p in db.Prizes
join c in db.Calendars on p.calendar_id equals c.calendar_id
join ch in db.Challenges on c.calendar_id equals ch.calendar_id
join ca in db.ChallengeAnswers on ch.challenge_id equals ca.challenge_id
join cr in db.ChallengeResponses on ca.challenge_answer_id equals cr.challenge_answer_id
where
p.prize_id.Equals(prizeId)
&& ch.day >= p.from_day && ch.day <= p.to_day
&& ca.correct.Equals(true)
&& ch.day.Equals(day)
orderby cr.Subscribers.name
select new PossibleWinner()
{
Name = cr.Subscribers.name,
Email = cr.Subscribers.email,
SubscriberId = cr.subscriber_id,
ChallengeDay = ch.day,
Question = ch.question,
Answer = ca.answer
})
.Skip(size * page)
.Take(size);
Problem is, how can I get the total number of results before the Take part?
I was thinking of:
var t = (from p in db.JK_Prizes
join c in db.JK_Calendars on p.calendar_id equals c.calendar_id
join ch in db.JK_Challenges on c.calendar_id equals ch.calendar_id
join ca in db.JK_ChallengeAnswers on ch.challenge_id equals ca.challenge_id
join cr in db.JK_ChallengeResponses on ca.challenge_answer_id equals cr.challenge_answer_id
where
p.prize_id.Equals(prizeId)
&& ch.day >= p.from_day && ch.day <= p.to_day
&& ca.correct.Equals(true)
&& ch.day.Equals(day)
select cr.subscriber_id)
.Count();
but that will do the query all over again...
anyone has suggestions on how can I do this effectively ?
If you take a query as such:
var qry = (from x in y
select x).Count();
...LINQ to SQL will be clever enough to make this a SELECT COUNT query, which is potentially rather efficient (efficiency will depend more on the conditions in the query). Bottom line is that the count operation happens in the database, not in LINQ code.
Writing my old comments :Well i was facing the same issue some time back and then i came up with LINQ to SP =). Make an SP and drop that into your entities and use it.you can get write Sp according to your need like pulling total record column too. It is more easy and fast as compare to that whet you are using wright now.
You can put count for query logic as well as, see the sample as below:
public int GetTotalCountForAllEmployeesByReportsTo(int? reportsTo, string orderBy = default(string), int startRowIndex = default(int), int maximumRows = default(int))
{
//Validate Input
if (reportsTo.IsEmpty())
return GetTotalCountForAllEmployees(orderBy, startRowIndex, maximumRows);
return _DatabaseContext.Employees.Count(employee => reportsTo == null ? employee.ReportsTo == null : employee.ReportsTo == reportsTo);
}
I am trying to figure out how to go about writing a linq query to perform an aggregate like the sql query below:
select d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME, count(s.id) as design_count
from tbldesigner d inner join
TBLDESIGN s on d.ID = s.DESIGNER_ID
where s.COMPLETED = 1 and d.ACTIVE = 1
group by d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME
Having COUNT(s.id) > 0
If this is even possible with a linq query could somebody please provide me with an example.
Thanks in Advance,
Billy
A more direct translation of your original SQL query would look like this:
var q =
// Join tables TblDesign with TblDesigner and filter them
from d in db.TblDesigner
join s in db.TblDesign on d.ID equals s.DesignerID
where s.Completed && d.Active
// Key and values used for grouping (note, you don't really need the
// value here, because you only need Count of the values in a group, but
// in case you needed anything from 's' or 'd' in 'select', you'd write this
let value = new { s, d }
let key = new { d.ID, d.FirstName, d.LastName }
group value by key into g
// Now, filter the created groups (return only non-empty) and select
// information for every group
where g.Count() > 0
select { ID = g.Key.ID, FirstName = g.Key.FirstName,
LastName = g.Key.LastName, Count = g.Count() };
The HAVING clause is translated to an ordinary where that is applied after grouping values using group ... by. The result of grouping is a collection of groups (another collections), so you can use where to filter groups. In the select clause, you can then return information from the key (used for grouping) and aggregate of values (using g.Count())
EDIT: As mmcteam points out (see comments), the where g.Count() > 0 clause is not necessary, because this is already guranteed by the join. I'll leave it there, because it shows how to translate HAVING clause in general, so it may be helpful in other cases.
Here's how I'd do it. Please note that I'm accustomed to linqtosql and am unaware if there are differences for the query in linqtoentities.
var query =
from d in myObjectContext.tbldesigner
where d.ACTIVE == 1
let manys =
from s in d.tbldesign
where s.COMPLETED == 1
select s
where manys.Count() > 0
select new
{
d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME,
DesignCount = manys.Count()
};
Ignoring the s.id which is confusing me (see my comment on the question), this is a simple query which would generate a having clause. Of course, in this case it's a worthless example since the count will always be more than 0 in this case.
Anyways, if you are using SQL to Entities, you should use the entity mapping to access the foreign key relationships instead of manually doing a join or a subquery.
var results = from d in db.tbldesigner
where d.TBLDESIGN.COMPLETED && d.ACTIVE
group d by new {d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME} into g
where g.Count() >= 0
select new {
d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME,
Count = g.Count()
};
NOTE: This is untested (and uncompiled) so there might be some issues, but this is where I would start.
I have some Linq code and it's working fine. It's a query that has a subquery in the Where clause. This subquery is doing a groupby. Works great.
The problem is that I don't know how to grab one of the results from the subquery out of the subquery into the parent.
Frst, here's the code. After that, I'll expplain what piece of data i'm wanting to extract.
var results = (from a in db.tblProducts
where (from r in db.tblReviews
where r.IdUserModified == 1
group r by
new
{
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Alpha,
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Beta,
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Gamma
}
into productGroup
orderby productGroup.Count() descending
select
new
{
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Alpha,
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Beta,
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Gamma,
ReviewCount = productGroup.Count()
}).Take(3)
.Any(
r =>
r.IdProductCode_Alpha== a.IdProductCode_Alpha&&
r.IdProductCode_Beta== a.IdProductCode_Beta&&
r.IdProductCode_Gamma== a.IdProductCode_Gamma)
where a.ProductFirstName == ""
select new {a.IdProduct, a.FullName}).ToList();
Ok. I've changed some field and tables names to protect the innocent. :)
See this last line :-
select new {a.IdProduct, a.FullName}).ToList();
I wish to include in that the ReviewCount (from the subquery). I'm jus not sure how.
To help understand the problem, this is what the data looks like.
Sub Query
IdProductCode_Alpha = 1, IdProductCode_Beta = 2, IdProductCode_Gamma = 3, ReviewCount = 10
... row 2 ...
... row 3 ...
Parent Query
IdProduct = 69, FullName = 'Jon Skeet's Wonder Balm'
So the subquery grabs the actual data i need. The parent query determines the correct product, based on the subquery filters.
EDIT 1: Schema
tblProducts
IdProductCode
FullName
ProductFirstName
tblReviews (each product has zero to many reviews)
IdProduct
IdProductCode_Alpha (can be null)
IdProductCode_Beta (can be null)
IdProductCode_Gamma (can be null)
IdPerson
So i'm trying to find the top 3 products a person has done reviews on.
The linq works perfectly... except i just don't know how to include the COUNT in the parent query (ie. pull that result from the subquery).
Cheers :)
Got it myself. Take note of the double from at the start of the query, then the Any() being replaced by a Where() clause.
var results = (from a in db.tblProducts
from g in (
from r in db.tblReviews
where r.IdUserModified == 1
group r by
new
{
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Alpha,
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Beta,
r.tblAddress.IdProductCode_Gamma
}
into productGroup
orderby productGroup.Count() descending
select
new
{
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Alpha,
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Beta,
productGroup.Key.IdProductCode_Gamma,
ReviewCount = productGroup.Count()
})
.Take(3)
Where(g.IdProductCode_Alpha== a.IdProductCode_Alpha&&
g.IdProductCode_Beta== a.IdProductCode_Beta&&
g.IdProductCode_Gamma== a.IdProductCode_Gamma)
where a.ProductFirstName == ""
select new {a.IdProduct, a.FullName, g.ReviewCount}).ToList();
While I don't understand LINQ completely, but wouldn't the JOIN work?
I know my answer doesn't help but it looks like you need a JOIN with the inner table(?).
I agree with shahkalpesh, both about the schema and the join.
You should be able to refactor...
r => r.IdProductCode_Alpha == a.IdProductCode_Alpha &&
r.IdProductCode_Beta == a.IdProductCode_Beta &&
r.IdProductCode_Gamma == a.IdProductCode_Gamma
into an inner join with tblProducts.