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Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

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    Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

    I have a complex query with quite a few subqueries, and the SQL parser in the ViewBox doesn't like them, so I was trying to see if the SQL Statement could be a Stored Procedure??
    I would want to pass 3 arguments.

    I don't think I can create a view since the subqueries are using 1 of the arguments

    I could create a function and it would work
    select * from fnViewBox(:Arg1,:Arg2,:Arg3)

    But the view box sql editor doesn't like that either.
    Last edited by asawyer13; 01-02-2019, 07:30 PM.

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    Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

    Haven't done it myself, but I'm pretty sure that since the LIST control can do that that the ViewBox control can as well. See the video "UX_V12--93 List Control - Using Native SQL For List Data". However, there is another technique that would most likely work and that is to define the "source" of the data to be "Static Data". In that method you list only the column names in the static data and in your xbasic you convert the query result set into JSON using one of the built-in aa functions like "VarToJsonStandard" and send back a little JavaScript code that gets a point to the LIST (ViewBox in your case) and calls the "populate" method with that json data.

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      #3
      Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

      You could move the complex query to the database and make it a view

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        Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

        Originally posted by GarthMc View Post
        You could move the complex query to the database and make it a view
        The query has inline subqueries in it that needs to use an argument so I don't think I can put it in a view

        For example.

        Select field1
        from table1
        where field2 = (select field3 from table2 where field4 = :Arg1)

        I don't believe I can create a view that will work for that. I have the value for Arg1, but I can't just add it to the where clause of the query that's using the view.

        Does that make sense??

        Unless I'm missing something, which is always possible.

        I tried using the List with the ViewBox and it works in a simple test, but My viewbox is inside a Container, which is inside a PanelHeader which is inside a PanelLayout and for some reason it won't show the viewbox at all.

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          #5
          Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

          Originally posted by GarthMc View Post
          You could move the complex query to the database and make it a view
          Let me see if there is some way I can rework my query to be subqueries rather than inline.

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            #6
            Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

            I should add that if I use a view in the viewbox everything works great but I don't think I can get my complex query put into a view, that's why I started thinking of using a stored procedure as I can do it very easily there.

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              #7
              Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

              I was able to rework my complex query so it could be put into a view. Now to test that.
              Thanks for the replies.

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                #8
                Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

                I was able to redo my query into a view, however the real issue was my criteria. So the stored procedure stuff worked as it should, it was just me

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                  Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

                  BTW Alan,
                  Did you try putting your original query in the ViewBox as a Nested SQL Query? On the "Data Source" tab for the ViewBox there is a "Query Type" field which can be set to "SQL Query" or "Nested SQL Query". I would think the builder for the latter type of query could have done what you want. You can make really complicated queries with that builder. Arguments can be used in the WHERE expression at any level in the Nested Query Builder.

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                    #10
                    Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

                    Without knowing the relationships between your tables, there are many ways to write SQL queries to accomplish a task. This may or may not be of help here.
                    Here is a simple example. Return a list customers who have purchase a specific product category.

                    I verified that this query will work in both a list control and viewbox.
                    SELECT distinct o.CustomerID
                    FROM orders o inner join [Order Details] OD on od.Orderid = o.orderid
                    left join products p on p.productID=od.productid
                    where p.CategoryID in (select p.categoryid from products p where p.categoryid= :Arg1)

                    Here is a method to move the argument to the main where clause but Alpha does not know how to parse this statement using left join sub queries.
                    SELECT distinct o.CustomerID
                    FROM orders o inner join [Order Details] OD on od.Orderid = o.orderid
                    left join
                    (select productid, categoryID from products) p on p.productID=od.productid
                    where p.CategoryID = :Arg1

                    Convert the above statement to a view

                    create view view_CustomerProductCategory
                    as
                    SELECT distinct o.CustomerID, p.CategoryID
                    FROM orders o inner join [Order Details] OD on od.Orderid = o.orderid
                    left join
                    (select productid, categoryID from products) p on p.productID=od.productid


                    Now use the view as your record source.
                    select CustomerID
                    from view_CustomerProductCategory where categoryid=:Arg1

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                      #11
                      Re: Can a Viewbox use a SQL Stored Procedure for the datasource

                      @frankiez +1 nice!

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