I'm using sql profiler to see sql generated by Ef core2.1,
this is my linq query :
var resulat = (from a in A
join b in B equals a.level=b.level
where ...
select new M1 {AId = a.id}).Distinct();
(from r in resulat
join c in C equals r.AId = c.AId
select new M2
{
CId = c.Id,
level = _helper(c.level)
}).Distinct();
Sql generated:
select t.AId,c.Id,c.level
from
(
select distinct a.id
from A a
inner join B b on a.level=b.level
where ...
) as t
inner join C c on t.AId = c.AId
What i want as result is :
select distinct c.Id,c.level
from
(
select distinct a.id
from A a
inner join B b on a.level=b.level
where ...
) as t
inner join C c on t.AId = c.AId
I have tried also using select/distinct with result IQueryable, but the sql generated is the same.
what i missed in my linq query or what i have to add to have this sql query
That's what worked for me:
Delete Distinct() from result query, this avoid adding t.AId to my selection.
Delete a helper method from one of my selection fields performe adding Distinct() to final query.
This is my query after correction:
var resulat = from a in A
join b in B equals a.level=b.level
where ...
select new M1 {AId = a.id};
(from r in resulat
join c in C equals r.AId = c.AId
select new M2
{
CId = c.Id
level = c.level
}).Distinct();
Many thanks for your comments, it really helped me.
I'm always a fan of querying the data you want directly from the table (well, DbSet) that returns the data. The process looks a bit like these steps:
I want C.Id and C.Level
That's context.Cs.
Which Cs do I want?
The ones that have a parent A, of which at least one B has the same 'level' as A and meets a couple of other criteria (the where ...).
That amounts to:
from c in context.Cs
where context.Bs.Any(b => b.level == c.A.level && <other criteria>)
select new { c.Id, c.Level }
If the where ... also contains filter criteria for A you can add predicates like && c.A == ... to the where.
Note that I assume a navigation property c.A to be present, otherwise to be created, because C has AId.
Consider these 2 classes.
class OrderDetail {int Specifier;}
class Order
{
OrderDetail[] Details;
}
Now I have a List I want to enumerate over, selecting only the objects with a Specifier of 1. As this is easy in SQL I thought LINQ with a join would be good for this but I dont know how to build the query.
from o in orders join o in o.Details on o.Id equals od.Id where od.Specifier = 1 select od
This gives an error that 'o' does not exist in the current context after join.
What am I doing wrong here?
orders.SelectMany(o => o.Details.Where(od => od.Specifier == 1))
In your query you are using same sequence variable name o for details, you should use join od in o.Details. But join is not needed here, because order already contains details:
from o in orderes
from od in o.Details
where od.Specifier == 1
select od
I have a fairly complicated join query that I use with my database. Upon running it I end up with results that contain an baseID and a bunch of other fields. I then want to take this baseID and determine how many times it occurs in a table like this:
TableToBeCounted (Many to Many)
{
baseID,
childID
}
How do I perform a linq query that still uses the query I already have and then JOINs the count() with the baseID?
Something like this in untested linq code:
from k in db.Kingdom
join p in db.Phylum on k.KingdomID equals p.KingdomID
where p.PhylumID == "Something"
join c in db.Class on p.PhylumID equals c.PhylumID
select new {c.ClassID, c.Name};
I then want to take that code and count how many orders are nested within each class. I then want to append a column using linq so that my final select looks like this:
select new {c.ClassID, c.Name, o.Count()}//Or something like that.
The entire example is based upon the Biological Classification system.
Update:
Assume for the example that I have multiple tables:
Kingdom
|--Phylum
|--Class
|--Order
Each Phylum has a Phylum ID and a Kingdom ID. Meaning that all phylum are a subset of a kingdom. All Orders are subsets of a Class ID. I want to count how many Orders below to each class.
I hope this is clear now.
Normally this is done with a group. For example:
from k in db.Kingdom
join p in db.Phylum on k.KingdomID equals p.KingdomID
where p.PhylumID == "Something"
join c in db.Class on p.PhylumID equals c.PhylumID
group c by new { c.ClassID, c.Name } into g
select new { Count = g.Count(), g.Key.ClassID, g.Key.Name };
That will basically count how many entries you have for each ClassID/Name pair. However, as Winston says in the comments, you're possibly interested in another table (Order) that you haven't told us about. We can't really give much more information until we know what you're doing here. Do you already have a relationship set up for this in LINQ to SQL? Please tell us about the Order table and how it relates to your other tables.
EDIT: Okay, with the modified question, I suspect we can ignore phylum and kingdom completely, unless I'm missing something. (I also can't see how this relates to a many-to-many mapping...)
I think this would work:
from o in db.Order
group o by o.ClassID into g
join c in db.Class on g.Key.ClassID equals c.ClassID
select new { c.ClassID, c.Name, g.Count() };
There are a lot of questions on SO already about Left joins in Linq, and the ones I've looked at all use the join keyword to achieve the desired end.
This does not make sense to me. Let's say I have the tables Customer and Invoice, linked by a foreign key CustomerID on Invoice. Now I want to run a report containing customer info, plus any invoices. SQL would be:
select c.*, i.*
from Customer c
left join Invoice i on c.ID = i.CustomerID
From what I've seen of the answers on SO, people are mostly suggesting:
var q = from c in Customers
join i in Invoices.DefaultIfEmpty() on c.ID equals i.CustomerID
select new { c, i };
I really don't understand how this can be the only way. The relationship between Customer and Invoice is already defined by the LinqToSQL classes; why should I have to repeat it for the join clause? If I wanted an inner join it would simply have been:
var q = from c in Customers
from i in c.Invoices
select new { c, i };
without specifying the joined fields!
I tried:
var q = from c in Customers
from i in c.Invoices.DefaultIfEmpty()
select new { c, i };
but that just gave me the same result as if it were an inner join.
Is there not a better way of doing this?
While the relationship is already defined (both in the database and in the .dbml markup) the runtime cannot automatically determine if it should use that relationship.
What if there are two relationships in the object model (Person has Parents and Children, both relationships to other Person instances). While cases could be special cased, this would make the system more complex (so more bugs). Remember in SQL you would repeat the specification of the relationship.
Remember indexes and keys are an implementation detail and not part of the relational algebra that underlies the relation model.
If you want a LEFT OUTER JOIN then you need to use "into":
from c in Customers
join i in Invoices on i.CustomerId equals c.CustomerId into inv
...
and inv will have type IEnumerable<Invoivce>, possibly with no instances.
What are you talking about? That from i in c.Invoice.DefaultIfEmpty() is exactly a left join.
List<string> strings = new List<string>() { "Foo", "" };
var q = from s in strings
from c in s.DefaultIfEmpty()
select new { s, c };
foreach (var x in q)
{
Console.WriteLine("ValueOfStringIs|{0}| ValueOfCharIs|{1}|",
x.s,
(int)x.c);
}
This test produces:
ValueOfStringIs|Foo| ValueOfCharIs|70|
ValueOfStringIs|Foo| ValueOfCharIs|111|
ValueOfStringIs|Foo| ValueOfCharIs|111|
ValueOfStringIs|| ValueOfCharIs|0|
You may probably want to use the 'into' keyword.
Example
I'm writing a LINQ to SQL statement, and I'm after the standard syntax for a normal inner join with an ON clause in C#.
How do you represent the following in LINQ to SQL:
select DealerContact.*
from Dealer
inner join DealerContact on Dealer.DealerID = DealerContact.DealerID
It goes something like:
from t1 in db.Table1
join t2 in db.Table2 on t1.field equals t2.field
select new { t1.field2, t2.field3}
It would be nice to have sensible names and fields for your tables for a better example. :)
Update
I think for your query this might be more appropriate:
var dealercontacts = from contact in DealerContact
join dealer in Dealer on contact.DealerId equals dealer.ID
select contact;
Since you are looking for the contacts, not the dealers.
And because I prefer the expression chain syntax, here is how you do it with that:
var dealerContracts = DealerContact.Join(Dealer,
contact => contact.DealerId,
dealer => dealer.DealerId,
(contact, dealer) => contact);
To extend the expression chain syntax answer by Clever Human:
If you wanted to do things (like filter or select) on fields from both tables being joined together -- instead on just one of those two tables -- you could create a new object in the lambda expression of the final parameter to the Join method incorporating both of those tables, for example:
var dealerInfo = DealerContact.Join(Dealer,
dc => dc.DealerId,
d => d.DealerId,
(dc, d) => new { DealerContact = dc, Dealer = d })
.Where(dc_d => dc_d.Dealer.FirstName == "Glenn"
&& dc_d.DealerContact.City == "Chicago")
.Select(dc_d => new {
dc_d.Dealer.DealerID,
dc_d.Dealer.FirstName,
dc_d.Dealer.LastName,
dc_d.DealerContact.City,
dc_d.DealerContact.State });
The interesting part is the lambda expression in line 4 of that example:
(dc, d) => new { DealerContact = dc, Dealer = d }
...where we construct a new anonymous-type object which has as properties the DealerContact and Dealer records, along with all of their fields.
We can then use fields from those records as we filter and select the results, as demonstrated by the remainder of the example, which uses dc_d as a name for the anonymous object we built which has both the DealerContact and Dealer records as its properties.
var results = from c in db.Companies
join cn in db.Countries on c.CountryID equals cn.ID
join ct in db.Cities on c.CityID equals ct.ID
join sect in db.Sectors on c.SectorID equals sect.ID
where (c.CountryID == cn.ID) && (c.CityID == ct.ID) && (c.SectorID == company.SectorID) && (company.SectorID == sect.ID)
select new { country = cn.Name, city = ct.Name, c.ID, c.Name, c.Address1, c.Address2, c.Address3, c.CountryID, c.CityID, c.Region, c.PostCode, c.Telephone, c.Website, c.SectorID, Status = (ContactStatus)c.StatusID, sector = sect.Name };
return results.ToList();
You create a foreign key, and LINQ-to-SQL creates navigation properties for you. Each Dealer will then have a collection of DealerContacts which you can select, filter, and manipulate.
from contact in dealer.DealerContacts select contact
or
context.Dealers.Select(d => d.DealerContacts)
If you're not using navigation properties, you're missing out one of the main benefits on LINQ-to-SQL - the part that maps the object graph.
Use Linq Join operator:
var q = from d in Dealer
join dc in DealerConact on d.DealerID equals dc.DealerID
select dc;
basically LINQ join operator provides no benefit for SQL. I.e. the following query
var r = from dealer in db.Dealers
from contact in db.DealerContact
where dealer.DealerID == contact.DealerID
select dealerContact;
will result in INNER JOIN in SQL
join is useful for IEnumerable<> because it is more efficient:
from contact in db.DealerContact
clause would be re-executed for every dealer
But for IQueryable<> it is not the case. Also join is less flexible.
Actually, often it is better not to join, in linq that is. When there are navigation properties a very succinct way to write your linq statement is:
from dealer in db.Dealers
from contact in dealer.DealerContacts
select new { whatever you need from dealer or contact }
It translates to a where clause:
SELECT <columns>
FROM Dealer, DealerContact
WHERE Dealer.DealerID = DealerContact.DealerID
Inner join two tables in linq C#
var result = from q1 in table1
join q2 in table2
on q1.Customer_Id equals q2.Customer_Id
select new { q1.Name, q1.Mobile, q2.Purchase, q2.Dates }
Use LINQ joins to perform Inner Join.
var employeeInfo = from emp in db.Employees
join dept in db.Departments
on emp.Eid equals dept.Eid
select new
{
emp.Ename,
dept.Dname,
emp.Elocation
};
Try this :
var data =(from t1 in dataContext.Table1 join
t2 in dataContext.Table2 on
t1.field equals t2.field
orderby t1.Id select t1).ToList();
OperationDataContext odDataContext = new OperationDataContext();
var studentInfo = from student in odDataContext.STUDENTs
join course in odDataContext.COURSEs
on student.course_id equals course.course_id
select new { student.student_name, student.student_city, course.course_name, course.course_desc };
Where student and course tables have primary key and foreign key relationship
try instead this,
var dealer = from d in Dealer
join dc in DealerContact on d.DealerID equals dc.DealerID
select d;
var Data= (from dealer in Dealer join dealercontact in DealerContact on dealer.ID equals dealercontact.DealerID
select new{
dealer.Id,
dealercontact.ContactName
}).ToList();
var data=(from t in db.your tableName(t1)
join s in db.yourothertablename(t2) on t1.fieldname equals t2.feldname
(where condtion)).tolist();
var list = (from u in db.Users join c in db.Customers on u.CustomerId equals c.CustomerId where u.Username == username
select new {u.UserId, u.CustomerId, u.ClientId, u.RoleId, u.Username, u.Email, u.Password, u.Salt, u.Hint1, u.Hint2, u.Hint3, u.Locked, u.Active,c.ProfilePic}).First();
Write table names you want, and initialize the select to get the result of fields.
from d1 in DealerContrac join d2 in DealerContrac on d1.dealearid equals d2.dealerid select new {dealercontract.*}
One Best example
Table Names : TBL_Emp and TBL_Dep
var result = from emp in TBL_Emp join dep in TBL_Dep on emp.id=dep.id
select new
{
emp.Name;
emp.Address
dep.Department_Name
}
foreach(char item in result)
{ // to do}