Question

I am trying to build a query in SQLite in Android. Query is very simple and looks like this:

SELECT    
        ifnull(object.icon_large, ifnull( object.image, item.IMG_DEF_COVER))   

FROM 
        object , item 
WHERE  
        object.id_item = 1 AND item.id_item = 1;

I’ve tried to use SQLiteDatabase.query(), but it can be used only for one table. Any suggestions how to combine queries or how to join them, using Android SQLiteDatabases query’s syntax?

Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

@fox you can use rawquery() instead of query example:

SQLiteDatabase mydatabase;
mydatabase.rawquery("select * from a, b where a.id=b.someid", null);

or can use querybuilder’s setTable() method to specify the joins example

 builder.setTables(TABLEA+" LEFT JOIN "+TABLEB+" ON "+TABLEB+"."+KEY_ID+"="+TABLEA+"."+KEY_B_ID);