Get Total Records Count and Custom No of Records in One Database Hit

Question

I am trying to implement custom paging in Ext.js grid, I need to get the total records for my table and the records according to page size. I am using a compiled query for this.

But I want to give just one database hit.

    List<MyTable> .GetRecordsById(Int32 ID, Int32 start, Int32 limit)
    {
        return CompliedGetRecordsById_CustomPaging(_dbNavigation, ID, start, limit).ToList();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Complied query for retrieving manage tasks Custom Paging
    /// </summary>
    public static readonly Func<SomeEntities, Int32,Int32, Int32, IQueryable<MyTable>> CompliedGetTaskByProjectId_CustomPaging =
        CompiledQuery.Compile<SomeEntities, Int32, Int32, Int32, IQueryable<MyTable>>((dbNavigation, ID, start, limit) =>
                                        dbNavigation.SiteTasksMappings.Include("TaskMaster")
                                        .Where(x=> x.myTableID == ID && x.STMIsActive == 1).OrderBy(x=>x.STMID).Skip(start).Take(limit));

This will only give the records only according to the arguments, I want to return total records and custom no of records from here

Answer 1

I guess you are using MS-SQL Server? Well this cannot be done. You will at least need a subselect for count. But that would lead you to a anonymous result type which is kind of ugly.

I recommend you to write a view for such Tables which adds a total count field. Note that MS SQL Server supports write operations for views which only addresses one table. If you have more simply write some stored procedures and assign them to the entity model of the view.