Question

I have a SQLite database with 70 records and would like to get 10 of these records using a cursor.

The 10 records I have have a KEY_ROWID(Primary key) of 2, 3, 15, 23, 35, 50, 51, 60, 61, 64

What is the SQL to retrieve these records?

Here is what I have so far, but I don’t think this will work…

Should I be using the WHERE or the HAVING clause?

Any help would be great.

public Cursor getTopTen() {

    String ids = "2, 3, 15, 23, 35, 50, 51, 60, 61, 64";

    SQLiteQueryBuilder queryBuilder = new SQLiteQueryBuilder();
    queryBuilder.setTables(DATABASE_TABLE);

    String[] columns = new String[] { KEY_ROWID, RECIPE, DESC, PREPTIME,
            COOKTIME, SERVES, CALORIES, FAT, CATEGORY, FAV };

    Cursor myCursor = queryBuilder.query(myDataBase, columns, KEY_ROWID + "="
            + "'" + ids + "'", null, null, null, null);

    return myCursor;
}

In SQL the java above is:

SELECT * FROM myDataBase WHERE KEYROWID = "2, 3, 15, 23, 35, 50, 51, 60, 61, 64".

Answer 1

The SQL should be:

SELECT * FROM myDataBase WHERE KEYROWID IN (2, 3, 15, 23, 35, 50, 51, 60, 61, 64)

When you want to get all rows where a column value is in a specific list of values you have to use the IN operator.

So your code should be:

public Cursor getTopTen() {

    String ids = "2, 3, 15, 23, 35, 50, 51, 60, 61, 64";

    SQLiteQueryBuilder queryBuilder = new SQLiteQueryBuilder();
    queryBuilder.setTables(DATABASE_TABLE);

    String[] columns = new String[] { KEY_ROWID, RECIPE, DESC, PREPTIME,
            COOKTIME, SERVES, CALORIES, FAT, CATEGORY, FAV };

    Cursor myCursor = queryBuilder.query(myDataBase, columns, KEY_ROWID + " IN ("
            + ids + ")", null, null, null, null);

    return myCursor;
}