I am working with MS SQL server and I am trying to build a complex query with ecto which contains a CTE:
WITH
timeslots AS
(
SELECT cast('2021-01-09T00:00:00' as smalldatetime) as slot
UNION ALL
SELECT dateadd(minute , 1, slot)
FROM timeslots
WHERE dateadd(minute, 1, slot) < '2021-01-15T00:00:00'
),
After reading the documentation for CTE with Ecto, I was trying to build the “initial query” but I did not get far.
Indeed, I do not see how I can select a value not coming from a table (e.g.: SELECT cast('2021-01-09T00:00:00' as smalldatetime) as slot).
Is there a way to do that without using fragments?
In the sample above, I’d personally opt to “inject” the empty slot once the results have come back from the database. Adding to the front of a list in Elixir is a very “cheap” operation.
I suspect the situation you are asking about (effectively “UNION”-ing a hand crafted row of data with database results) doesn’t fit within the Ecto model. I had another look through the documentation and I can’t see anything that comes close. So you will either need to use a fragment, or go for the option I noted above, or build a view that performs the UNION on the database side.
This can be done but its hacky. However, IMO it should not be removed (PLEASE DONT REMOVE THIS we want the query scrubbed without the FROM condition) taking from SQL injection you can use -- to rem out the FROM condition.
MyRepo.all(
from(d in "_",
select: %{
test: fragment("to_timestamp('11:12:02.020.001230', 'HH:MI:SS.MS.US') as slot--")
}
)
)