Hi Andrew,

yes correct: DBQuery is the answer.

There is an example for subqueries in the advanced sample application provided 
with the distribution (empire-db-example-advanced). See function 
querySample(...) in SampleAdvApp.java.

Regards,
Rainer 

andrew cooke wrote:
> Re: How do I construct this select (with sub-select column),
> please?
> 
> Ah, sorry, this is the same as the prev Query here (use DBQuery).
> Please ignore,  Andrew.
> 
> 
> 2009/12/8 andrew cooke <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I thought I had done this before, but now I can't work out what I
> did.
> >  I would like to construct this query, given that the appropriate
> > tables etc are defined:
> >
> > select ARTISTS.id, ARTISTS.value
> >  from ARTISTS
> >  left join (select ARTIST_CANONICAL.artist
> >               from ARTIST_CANONICAL
> >               join LFM_ARTIST_TAGS
> >                 on ARTIST_CANONICAL.canonical =
> LFM_ARTIST_TAGS.source) as X
> >    on ARTISTS.id = X.artist
> >  where X.artist is null;
> >
> > In case it helps, the logic is that I want the rows from ARTISTS that
> > do not have any link, via the association table ARTIST_CANONICAL,
> with
> > LFM_ARTIST_TAGS.
> >
> > It's all "trivial" except for "ARTISTS.id = X.artist" - I have a
> > DBCommand that represents X, but it has no attribute for the column.
> > Somehow I need to convert the command to something that is table-like
> > (I think).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> >

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