Hi,
I have two classes (Review and Author) that are representative of tables
in my database. Both classes are marked up LINQ mappings. The database
(and classes) is structured in such a way that each Review has the ID of
the Author that wrote it, eg
[Table(Name = "Authors")]
public class Author
{
...
[Column(Name = "id", IsPrimaryKey = true, IsDbGenerated = true)]
public int ID
{
...
}
...
}
[Table(Name = "Reviews")]
public class Review
{
...
[Column(Name = "author")]
public int AuthorID
{
...
}
...
}
In the database, the "author" column in the "Reviews" table is a foreign
key mapped to the primary key (ID) of the "Authors" table.
What I am doing at the moment is getting an array of Review objects
using LINQ, and then looping through the array using a foreach
statement, then doing another query to get the Author object for each
Review, eg.
Review[] reviews = _db.GetReviews();
foreach (Review review in reviews)
{
Author author = _db.GetAuthorByID(review.AuthorID);
...
}
Now this to me seems awfully inefficient as it's going to doing loads of
queries to the database! Which brings me to my question - how can I do
this sort of thing in a more efficient way?
Can it be done keeping the Review and Author objects separate, or am I
going to have to create some sort of class that has all the information
about a review, ie. the review and author information? If so, how do I
go about writing a LINQ query to do this?
Thanks,
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