On 6/18/14, 8:31 PM, Vineet Goel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convert the following SQL to SQLAlchemy:
>
> |SELECT teams.department, teams.team,
>         IF(employee_managers.team_id IS NOT NULL, employee_managers.manager, 
> teams.default_manager) AS manager
> FROM teams
> LEFT JOIN employee_managers ON employee_managers.team_id = teams.id
> WHERE teams.department = 'hr' and (employee_managers.name = 'vineet' OR 
> employee_managers.name IS NULL)|

the SQL standard version of "IF" is "CASE", SQLAlchemy supports CASE
directly see
http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_9/core/sqlelement.html?highlight=case#sqlalchemy.sql.expression.case



> where my models look like this:
>
> |class EmployeeTeam(db.Model):
>   __tablename__ = 'teams'
>   id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
>   name = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)
>   department = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)
>   team = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)
>   default_manager = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)
>
> class EmployeeManagers(db.Model):
>   __tablename__ = 'employee_managers'
>   id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
>   name = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)
>   team_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('teams.id'))
>   team = db.relationship('EmployeeTeam')
>   manager = db.Column(db.String(140), nullable=False)|
> After hours of googling, I found some func.IF kind of stuff but they
> all keep giving me an  OperationalError: (OperationalError) (1248,
> 'Every derived table must have its own alias').
>
> Does anyone know a simple way to convert this SQL to SQLAlchemy?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
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