It's super-easy Richard. You can provide a list of Field objects or a list of colnames in "table.field" format and it will return a Rows object for you. It's almost too easy!
rows=db.executesql("select id,code,name from lsc", colnames=['lsc.id','lsc.code','lsc.name']) -- Joe On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:26:24 AM UTC-7, Richard wrote: > > Yes you are right... I just puch as far as I can for this one to touch the > limit... Though the reason was to make use of Row and dot notation to > access data because I manipulate them a lot and using slicing would make my > code much less redable. > > I think there is a way to initialise Row on db.executesql, I will have > read about that. > > Thanks > > Richard > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Joe Barnhart > <joe.ba...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi Richard -- >> >> When using special DB features, sometimes it's best just to fall back to >> the old "executesql" function. It works really well for those complex >> joins and special functions that are just too seldom-used to be >> special-cased in the DAL. >> >> In fact, when I was forced to use it not long ago, I was amazed at how >> simple and direct it was. It really made a messy query into a clean one. >> >> -- Joe >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:46:20 AM UTC-7, Richard wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there a way to do string_agg() with in web2py for a query that have >>> groupby clause? >>> >>> Richard >>> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.