I'm sorry but I can't see how the problem you describe is related to my 
question. My Question was whether outer joins are supported or not and 
if not, what the work-around could be.


Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz



Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Note: The mail may seem unrelated if you dont read till 
> the last line.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de>
> To: Apache Torque Users List <torque-user@db.apache.org>
> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:43:21 +0100
> Subject: left outer join
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have 3 tables SECTION and BRAND and MODEL. SECTION is related to BRAND 
> and to MODEL via two foreign keys. I would like to select ALL SECTIONs 
> whether the FKs are null or not and fetch the BRAND and MODEL attributes 
> in one SQL statement. In other words I need a double outer join:
> 
> SELECT
> SECTION.SECTION_PK,
> SECTION.SECTION_NAME,
> SECTION.BRAND_FK,
> SECTION.MODEL_FK,
> BRAND.BRAND_NAME
> MODEL.MODEL_NAME
> FROM SECTION
> left outer join MODEL  on MODEL_PK =MODEL_FK
> left outer join BRAND  on BRAND_PK =BRAND_FK
> 
> I have seen some old discussion threads from 2002 suggesting that Torque 
> does not support outer joins. Is this still the case?
> 
> If so, can anyone suggest an efficient work-around? I'd rather not fetch 
> the other table's attributes in a loop.
> 
> =======================================================================
> 2nd Problem
> -----------
> Scenario as above but this time SECTION has two foreign key 
> relationships with the same table:
> 
> SELECT
> SECTION.SECTION_PK,
> SECTION.SECTION_NAME,
> SECTION.BRAND_1_SKIPPED_FK,
> SECTION.BRAND_2_SKIPPED_FK,
> BRAND.BRAND_NAME (1)
> BRAND.BRAND_NAME (2)
> FROM SECTION
> left outer join BRAND  on BRAND_PK =BRAND_1_SKIPPED_FK
> left outer join BRAND  on BRAND_PK =BRAND_2_SKIPPED_FK
> 
> (the above obviously doens't work as SQL statement but ...)
> 
> How would I specify the same output columns twice?
> How can I implement this logic using Torque?
> 

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