Question

There are a few questions on SO already regarding LINQ pivots and while a couple of them outline my exact problem, I can’t successfully translate them to a working solution. I feel that this is mostly due to a join in my tables.

So for the benefit of all the LINQ junkies out there who love a problem, here’s another puzzle for you to work out. Please help me out (and earn some reputation points and much respect from me) by converting the following SQL stored proc script to LINQ:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetTimesheetForWeekById]     @timesheetid int,     @begindate VarChar(20),     @enddate VarChar(20) AS BEGIN      SELECT T.TaskName,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 WHEN 1 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Sunday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 2 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Monday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 3 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Tuesday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 4 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Wednesday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 5 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Thursday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 6 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Friday,         SUM(             case DATEPART(weekday, TE.StartTime)                 when 6 THEN DATEDIFF(minute, TE.StartTime, TE.EndTime) ELSE 0 END             ) AS Saturday      FROM Tasks T     INNER JOIN TimeEntries TE on T.TaskID = TE.TaskID     WHERE TE.StartTime BETWEEN          (CONVERT(datetime, @begindate, 103)) AND (CONVERT(datetime, @enddate, 103))     AND TE.TimesheetID = @timesheetid     GROUP BY T.TaskName END 

Answer 1

Well, assuming that the foreign key has an object representation, something like:

        int timesheetId = ...         DateTime start = ..., end = ...         var qry = from timeEntry in ctx.TimeEntries               let date = timeEntry.StartTime.Date               where timeEntry.TimesheetId == timesheetId                 && date >= start                 && date <= end               group timeEntry by timeEntry.Task.TaskName into grp               select new {                   TaskName = grp.Key,                   Monday = grp.Where(x => x.StartTime.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Monday).Count(),                   Tuesday = grp.Where(x => x.StartTime.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Tuesday).Count(),                   Wednesday = grp.Where(x => x.StartTime.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Wednesday).Count(),                   Thursday = grp.Where(x => x.StartTime.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Thursday).Count(),                   Friday = grp.Where(x => x.StartTime.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Friday).Count()               }; 

Unfortunately, some of the specifics depend on the SQL provider – i.e. which functions (like DayOfWeek etc) it can map successfully as TSQL. Let me know if you get problems…