CRM 2015 Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk: Unexpected results in second CreateQuery call - microsoft-dynamics

Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
var ctx = new ServiceContext(...);
var result1 = (from f in ctx.CreateQuery<aEntity>()
where f.field1 == "x"
select new { f.Id, f.field2 }).ToList();
var result2 = (from f in ctx.CreateQuery<aEntity>()
where f.field1 == "x"
select f.field1).First();
result2 returns null! After adding f.field1 to the select clause in the first query result2 returns "x". It looks like a internal columnset is created and used in the context of the second call. Looking at the SQL Server trace of both calls we see the expected select-from queries based on the C# code. The returned second result is not expected. Can someone explain this behaviour?

As for me it looks like a caching functionality and it's on the side of CRM because as you mentioned SQL queries were correct. I had the same issue in my applications when tried to make two consecutive queries for the same entity record but selected two different fields, the second request always returned NULL. Here are workarounds that I use when work with the ServiceContext:
Simple one: always retrieve an entity with all fields (without select statement) (even if I want it or not)
or create a service context with disabled caching
Right now I try to use the ServiceContext as less as possible replacing it with QueryBase expressions (even if I love to use LINQ).

Keep in mind LINQ CRM driver implementation is a subset of SQL only.
Could you try something like this?
var result1 = (from f in ctx.CreateQuery<aEntity>()
where f.field1 == "x"
select new CustomClass {
Id = f.aEntityId,
Field2 = f.field2
}).ToList();
You can have complex queries if you want, but you need to know what can be done and what can't be done.
Id property is not always returned by the driver, but the entity's primary key is, which is normally the entity logical name + "Id".

Related

Can I add a string type parameter to a SQL statement without quotes?

I have a C++Builder SQL Statement with a parameter like
UnicodeString SQLStatement = "INSERT INTO TABLENAME (DATETIME) VALUES (:dateTime)"
Can I add the parameter without quotes?
Usually I'd use
TADOQuery *query = new TADOQuery(NULL);
query->Parameters->CreateParameter("dateTime", ftString, pdInput, 255, DateTimeToStr(Now()));
which will eventually produce the SQL String
INSERT INTO TABLENAME (DATETIME) VALUES ('2022-01-14 14:33:00.000')
but because this is a legacy project (of course, it always is) and I have to maintain different database technologies, I need to be able to inject database specific date time conversion methods, so that the endresult would look like
INSERT INTO TABLENAME (DATETIME) VALUES (to_date('2022-01-14 14:33:00.000', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss')))
If I try injecting this via my 'usual' method (because I don't think I can inject a second parameter into this one) it'd look like:
TADOQuery *query = new TADOQuery(NULL);
query->Parameters->CreateParameter("dateTime", ftInteger, pdInput, 255, "to_date('" + DateTimeToStr(Now()) + "', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss')");
but of course the result would look like:
INSERT INTO TABLENAME (DATETIME) VALUES ('to_date('2022-01-14 14:33:00.000', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss')'))
and therefore be invalid
Or is there another way to do this more cleanly and elegantly? Although I'd settle with 'working'.
I can work around this by preparing two SQL Statements and switch the statement when another database technology is but I just wanted to check if there is another way.
Why are you defining the parameter's DataType as ftInteger when your input value is clearly NOT an integer? You should be defining the DataType as ftDateTime instead, and then assigning Now() as-is to the parameter's Value. Let the database engine decide how it wants to format the date/time value in the final SQL per its own rules.
query->Parameters->CreateParameter("dateTime", ftDateTime, pdInput, 0, Now());

Ignite SqlFieldsQuery specific keys

Using the ignite C++ API, I'm trying to find a way to perform an SqlFieldsQuery to select a specific field, but would like to do this for a set of keys.
One way to do this, is to do the SqlFieldsQuery like this,
SqlFieldsQuery("select field from Table where _key in (" + keys_string + ")")
where the keys_string is the list of the keys as a comma separated string.
Unfortunately, this takes a very long time compared to just doing cache.GetAll(keys) for the set of keys, keys.
Is there an alternative, faster way of getting a specific field for a set of keys from an ignite cache?
EDIT:
After reading the answers, I tried changing the query to:
auto query = SqlFieldsQuery("select field from Table t join table(_key bigint = ?) i on t._key = i._key")
I then add the arguments from my set of keys like this:
for(const auto& key: keys) query.AddArgument(key);
but when running the query, I get the error:
Failed to bind parameter [idx=2, obj=159957, stmt=prep0: select field from Table t join table(_key bigint = ?) i on t._key = i._key {1: 159956}]
Clearly, this doesn't work because there is only one '?'.
So I then tried to pass a vector<int64_t> of the keys, but I got an error which basically says that std::vector<int64_t> did not specialize the ignite BinaryType. So I did this as defined here. When calling e.g.
writer.WriteInt64Array("data", data.data(), data.size())
I gave the field a arbitrary name "data". This then results in the error:
Failed to run map query remotely.
Unfortunately, the C++ API is neither well documented, nor complete, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something or that the API does not allow for passing an array as argument to the SqlFieldsQuery.
Query that uses IN clause doesn't always use indexes properly. The workaround for this is described here: https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/sql-performance-and-debugging#sql-performance-and-usability-considerations
Also if you have an option to to GetAll instead and lookup by key directly, then you should use it. It will likely be more effective anyway.
Query with operator "IN" will not always use indexes. As a workaround, you can rewrite the query in the following way:
select field from Table t join table(id bigint = ?) i on t.id = i.id
and then invoke it like:
new SqlFieldsQuery(
"select field from Table t join table(id bigint = ?) i on t.id = i.id")
.setArgs(new Object[]{ new Integer[] {2, 3, 4} }))

Siebel NextRecord method is not moving to the next record

I have found a very weird behaviour in our Siebel 7.8 application. This is part of a business service:
var bo:BusObject;
var bc:BusComp;
try {
bo = TheApplication().GetBusObject("Service Request");
bc = bo.GetBusComp("Action");
bc.InvokeMethod("SetAdminMode", "TRUE");
bc.SetViewMode(AllView);
bc.ClearToQuery();
bc.SetSearchSpec("Status", "='Unscheduled' OR ='Scheduled' OR ='02'");
bc.ExecuteQuery(ForwardOnly);
var isRecord = bc.FirstRecord();
while (isRecord) {
log("Processing activity '" + bc.GetFieldValue("Id") + "'");
bc.SetFieldValue("Status", "03");
bc.WriteRecord();
isRecord = bc.NextRecord();
}
} catch (e) {
log("Exception: " + e.message);
} finally {
bc = null;
bo = null;
}
In the log file, we get something like this:
Processing activity '1-23456'
Processing activity '1-56789'
Processing activity '1-ABCDE'
Processing activity '1-ABCDE'
Exception: The selected record has been modified by another user since it was retrieved.
Please continue. (SBL-DAT-00523)
So, basically, it processes a few records from the BC and then, apparently at random, it "gets stuck". It's like the NextRecord call isn't executed, and instead it processes the same record again.
If I remove the SetFieldValue and WriteRecord to avoid the SBL-DAT-00523 error, it still shows some activities twice (only twice) in the log file.
What could be causing this behaviour?
It looks like in business component "Action" you have join(s) that can return multiple records for one base record and you use ForwardOnly mode to query BC.
Assume, for example, in table S_EVT_ACT you have one record with a custom column X_PHONE_NUMBER = '12345678' and you have two records in table S_CONTACT with column 'MAIN_PH_NUM' equal to the same value '12345678'. So when you will join these two tables using SQL like this:
SELECT T1.* FROM SIEBEL.S_EVT_ACT T1, SIEBELS_CONTACT T2
WHERE T1.X_PHONE_NUMBER = T2.MAIN_PH_NUM
as a result you will get two records, with the same T1.ROW_ID.
Exactly the same situation happens when you use ForwardOnly cursor mode in eScript, in this case Siebel just fetches everything what database has returned. And that why it's a big mistake to iterate over business component while it's queried in a ForwardOnly mode. You should use ForwardBackward mode instead, because in this case Siebel will exclude duplicates records (it also true for normal UI queries, because it also executed in ForwardBackward mode).
Actually this is the most important and less known difference between ForwardOnly and ForwardBackward cursor modes.
Try changing that query mode
bc.ExecuteQuery(ForwardOnly);
to ForwardBackward.

cf9 ORM Computed Column - Can it call a method, or include general cfml logic as opposed to SQL

My Persistant model has a 'status' field, which can be 0 or 1.
I have a method in my model called getStatusLabel(), which returns "Active" or "Retired", depending on what status is passed to it.
public function getStatusLabel(required status){
if (status eq 1)
return "Active";
else if (status eq 0)
return "Retired";
}
I was thinking it would be great if this could be setup as a computed column, but can't quite think how to do this. All computed column examples have a SQL Statement as the formula.
Is it possible to call this (or another) method as my formula (making it easier to access via my model), or does the formula need to be a SQL statement?
Alternatively, is is possible to include the logic of the method straight in as the 'formula'.
When I attempt either, I am getting error: Could not initialize collection so guessing this can't be done, but would be brilliant if it could, so worth asking.
Many Thanks in advance!
Jason
If you're using a computed column in SQL Server, you can set the column definition to this:
CASE WHEN status = 1 THEN 'Active' ELSE 'Retired' END
Set the column to persisted so it doesn't have to be calculated with each query, and you should then be able to use that in your ORM. Just make sure it's marked as not updatable or insertable.
Also, you can have the getStatusLabel method use the status property of the object without passing it in as an argument:
public function getStatusLabel(){
if (this.status eq 1)
return "Active";
else if (this.status eq 0)
return "Retired";
}
If you use that function, just referencing the local status property, does that work as you'd expect?

Subsonic3 Where "OR" clause linq query

I'm trying to figure out how to do a query with a where blah=blah or blah=blah2 with subsonic 3 linq and I can't figure it out. My query at the moment looks like this:
var ddFaxNumbers = from f in rf_faxnumber.All().Where(f => f.assigned == null).Where(f => f.location == currentFaxNumberRecordData.location)
select f;
This is a page with an update panel where when the user clicks edit I display 2 dropdowns, one for location, and one for the phone numbers. The current phone number is assigned, and marked so in the database table, so when I try to bind the dropdown it throws an error since the results don't contain the currently assigned number. I need to be able to query the table like so:
select * from numbers where assigned == null or number == currentnumber and location=selecteLocation. What I can't figure out in the SS syntax is how to do the OR part of the query. I don't see an .or, so is this even possible? Thanks for your help in advance.
Jon
You should be able to just do:
var ddFaxNumbers = from f in rf_faxnumber.All()
where (f.assigned == null || f.location == currentFaxNumberRecordData.location)
select f;