Question

Right problem I’ve been trying to sort for ages now!

I’m trying to display the result from a SQL select command and display this information to my view. I can’t simple use EntityFramework, not from what I can see anyway, to do the command because I am bringing in data from 2 different tables and displaying as one, this is for a report.

this is the sql command I need to run.

select FirstName, LastName,
(select count(*) from Orders o where U.userID = o.CreatedByUserID and ProductID = 1) as ProductCount
from Users U
order by UserID

Is there anything I can do to run this command? I’d be willing to try a EntityFramwork way of doing it if I can’t run the SQL directly.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

You could use EF (or another ORM solution). There is clearly a relationship between the orders and the users: U.userID = o.CreatedByUserID. You can just retrieve the users, and then access user.Orders.Count to get the “missing” value.