Sorry for my late response as I wondered off trying out different solutions:
Solution #1: Master Table
As suggested by @Alexw, creating a Master Table works the best ONLY if you are allowed to change the design of the db. I'm currently working with the db owner to make this change. Due to dependencies, this change has to wait till next phase.
Meanwhile, I've created mock db to exercise this approach.
Solution #2: Raw Query
As Suggested by @Umair, raw query will do the job. I've created a class that handles raw sql query.
public class AtsRawQuery
{
private string ConnetionString = "";
public AtsRawQuery(string connectionString)
{
this.ConnetionString = connectionString;
}
public List<List<string>> Query(string queryString)
{
List<List<string>> results = null;
MySqlConnection conn = null;
MySqlDataReader rdr = null;
try
{
conn = new MySqlConnection(this.ConnetionString);
conn.Open();
MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand(queryString, conn);
rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
if (rdr.HasRows)
{
results = new List<List<string>>();
while (rdr.Read())
{
List<string> curr_result = new List<string>();
for (int columnIndex = 0; columnIndex <= rdr.FieldCount - 1; columnIndex++)
{
curr_result.Add(rdr.GetString(columnIndex));
}
results.Add(curr_result);
}
}
}
catch (MySqlException ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
return null;
}
finally
{
if (rdr != null)
{
rdr.Close();
}
if (conn != null)
{
conn.Close();
}
}
return results;
}
}
This class returns a 2 dimension list for later consumption.
In my model class, I added a parser method:
public class AtsPlatform
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string RequestNumber { get; set; }
public Int32? NumberOfFail { get; set; }
public Int32? NumberOfTestCase { get; set; }
public Int32? NumberOfFailWithCR { get; set; }
public void Parse(string name, string requestNumber, string numberOfFail, string numberOfTestCase, string numberOfFailWithCR)
{
Int32 temp;
this.Name = name;
this.RequestNumber = requestNumber;
this.NumberOfFail = (Int32.TryParse(numberOfFail, out temp)) ? Int32.Parse(numberOfFail) : 0;
this.NumberOfTestCase = (Int32.TryParse(numberOfTestCase, out temp)) ? Int32.Parse(numberOfTestCase) : 0;
this.NumberOfFailWithCR = (Int32.TryParse(numberOfFailWithCR, out temp)) ? Int32.Parse(numberOfFailWithCR) : 0;
}
}
Solution #2(b): Raw Query using ExecuteStoreCommand
public List<AtsPlatform> GetAtsPlatformByName(string atsPlatformName)
{
List<AtsPlatform> atsPlatforms = null;
string stm = String.Format("SELECT RequestNumber, NumberOfFail, NumberOfTestCase, NumberOfFailWithCR FROM {0}", atsPlatformName);
atsPlatforms = new List<AtsPlatform>();
foreach (AtsPlatform ats in ctx.ExecuteStoreQuery<AtsPlatform>(stm))
{
atsPlatforms.Add(ats);
}
return atsPlatforms;
}
Solution #3: Stored Procedure
I've created a stored procedure and here is the code:
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `UnionAtsTables`()
BEGIN
DECLARE atsName VARCHAR(10);
DECLARE atsIndex INT;
SET atsIndex = 1;
SET @qry = '';
WHILE atsIndex > 0 DO
SET atsName =concat('ATS',atsIndex);
IF sf_is_table(atsName) = 1 THEN
Set @temp_qry = CONCAT('SELECT *, ''', atsName ,''' As TestPlatform FROM ', atsName, ' WHERE RequestNumber <> ''''' );
If @qry = '' THEN
SET @qry = @temp_qry;
ELSE
SET @qry = CONCAT(@qry, ' UNION ', @temp_qry);
END IF;
ELSE
SET atsIndex = -1;
END IF;
SET atsIndex = atsIndex + 1;
END WHILE;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ats_all;
SET @CreateTempTableQuery = CONCAT('CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ats_all AS ', @qry ,'');
PREPARE stmt1 FROM @CreateTempTableQuery;
EXECUTE stmt1;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt1;
ALTER TABLE ats_all DROP COLUMN ExecOrder;
ALTER TABLE ats_all ADD ExecOrder INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT;
ALTER TABLE ats_all auto_increment = 0;
END
Here is the function I found online that checks if table exists in db.
DELIMITER $$
CREATE FUNCTION `sf_is_table`(`in_table` varchar(255)) RETURNS tinyint(4)
BEGIN
/**
* Check if table exists in database in use
*
* @name sf_is_table
* @author Shay Anderson 08.13 <http://www.shayanderson.com>
*
* @param in_table (table name to check)
* @return TINYINT (1 = table exists, 0 = table does not exist)
*/
# table exists flag
DECLARE is_table BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE;
# table count
DECLARE table_count INT DEFAULT 0;
# database name
SET @db = NULL;
# set database name
SELECT
DATABASE()
INTO
@db;
# check for valid database and table names
IF LENGTH(@db) > 0 AND LENGTH(in_table) > 0 THEN
# execute query to check if table exists in DB schema
SELECT COUNT(1) INTO table_count
FROM information_schema.`TABLES`
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = @db
AND TABLE_NAME = in_table;
# set if table exists
IF table_count > 0 THEN
SET is_table = TRUE;
END IF;
END IF;
RETURN is_table;
END
Conclusion:
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.
I decided to use Solution #2 since it does not cause as much impact to the db performance as Solution #3 and it does not require db redesign as Solution #1.
