[OT] Idea to get all columns from multiple tables in DB

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 1/7/20 9:28 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> What I realized after watching your talk is that I've generally married 
> the structure to the query rather then the tables or data.
> 
> Select user.name, equip.product...
> 
> struct Ownership {
>     string usersname;
>     string product;
> }
> 
> I this situation the assignment comes from position and not by column 
> name. You lose the * as you mentioned.

In my project, I only do generation of SQL for updating or inserting 
rows. For fetching elements, I write the SQL (by hand or through a sql 
building system I wrote) and then use the byItem serializer to get the 
records.

Upon the first record, I use the column names in the list to map the 
field order to the column order. So I don't have to worry about columns 
being removed/added, etc. And then for each row fetched, everything is 
extremely fast because the column order/names don't change.

And yeah, I've done stuff like the above when I have for instance to 
fetch statistical data. But for the most part, I have one struct for 
each table row that I fetch. In my code, if you don't fetch all the 
columns, it just doesn't fill those in.

But I hadn't thought of a good way until now to rename the columns 
fetched so they can be serialized correctly when there are conflicting 
column names without spelling all the columns out (which I hate). In 
fact, I might change this later to avoid having to fetch the column 
prefix for every row (I only need it for the first row), but this 
technique is definitely more efficient than fetching all of one type 
first (probably in a single query), and then fetching each related item 
one at a time.

-Steve