how to use EF to select using DISTINCT and FOREIGN KEY together

Question

This may be very basic, but here we go, as I can´t solve that for now.

I´m using Entity Frameword for Oracle (Managed Driver) and would like to do get all following:

I have 2 database tables as follows:

    TABLE_USER

    ID   INTEGER
    NAME STRING
    AGE  INTEGER

Content:

    0 JOHN 39
    1 MARY 40
    2 ALBERT 41
    3 ROBERT 42
    4 SARAH 43
    5 PETER 44



    TABLE_EVENTS

    ID         INTEGER
    EVENT_NAME STRING
    USER_ID    INTEGER (FOREIGN KEY TO TABLE_USER.ID)

Content:

    0 CREATE 1
    1 CREATE 2 
    2 CREATE 5
    3 DELETE 3
    4 DELETE 0
    5 CREATE 1
    6 DELETE 3
    7 CREATE 0
    8 UPDATE 4
    9 UPDATE 5
    10 DELETE 1

I need to get all DISTINCT values from TABLE_EVENTS where the user age in TABLE_USER is of a certain condition (like AGE <= 40 ).

That example would give me the following list: CREATE DELETE

My code shall look like:

    IQueryable<TABLE_USER> tableUser = dbContext.TABLE_USER;
    IQueryable<TABLE_EVENTS> tableEvents = dbContext.TABLE_EVENTS;

    ///
    /// Build the query
    /// 
    tableUserQuery = tableUser.Where(record => record => USER_ID == ??tableUser.ID?? &&
                                     ??tableUser.AGE < 30?? ).GroupJoin(???);
    ///
    /// Execute que query
    /// 
    var dbList = query.ToList();

I was looking at GroupJoin and other stuff, but I can´t even figure out how to built this query, so all I´ve posted is a skeleton...

Appreciate any kind of help.

Answer 1

typically if 2 tables are linked by foreign key, EF generates the navigation property to reach the other entity and you can use this query.

List<string> events = dbContext.TABLE_EVENTS.Where(te=>te.TABLE_USER.AGE < 30).Select(te=>te.EVENT_NAME).Distinct().ToList();

If you don't see the foreign entity linked, then the query is

List<string> events = dbContext.TABLE_EVENTS.Join(dbContext.TABLE_USERS, te=>te.USER_ID, tu=>tu.ID, (te,tu)=> te).Where(te=>te.TABLE_USER.AGE < 30).Select(te=>te.EVENT_NAME).Distinct().ToList();

the above query basically does an inner join on the user id, applies the filter and gets the distinct values.