On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Kent wrote:
I used department as a dummy type object, but I meant it to be an
illustration of what I am trying to accomplish.
I was hoping the illustration would spark a oh, I know what he's
trying to do... no, do it this way...
when merge() recurses to list
In case the point wasn't clear, I'd like merge() to be able to figure
out which items to add, update and, esp, delete without needing to do
that programatically myself.
On Feb 19, 7:26 am, Kent k...@retailarchitects.com wrote:
Suppose I have a database table, as an example, employee that has a
In my example, there is only *one* table, employee. Yes, dept would
be a string column on employee.
The catch is there is *no* department table.
But I'd like to be able to call merge() given a list of employees for
a given dept and have it figure out which need to be added, updated
and deleted.
On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Kent wrote:
In my example, there is only *one* table, employee. Yes, dept would
be a string column on employee.
The catch is there is *no* department table.
but what does this mean then ?
department.dept = 'PAYROLL'
department.employees = [ empa, empb, empc
I used department as a dummy type object, but I meant it to be an
illustration of what I am trying to accomplish.
I was hoping the illustration would spark a oh, I know what he's
trying to do... no, do it this way...
when merge() recurses to list relation, how does it build the list of
things to