What is the simplest way to check if record exists using the Dapper ORM?
Do I really need to define POCO objects for a query where I only want to check if a record exists?
What is the simplest way to check if record exists using the Dapper ORM?
Do I really need to define POCO objects for a query where I only want to check if a record exists?
int id = ...
var exists = conn.ExecuteScalar<bool>("select count(1) from Table where Id=@id", new {id});
should work...
I think this may have a tad less overhead as there's no function call or data type conversions:
int id = ...
var exists = connection.Query<object>(
"SELECT 1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM MyTable WHERE ID = @id)", new { id })
.Any();
const string sql = "SELECT CAST(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM MyTable WHERE Id = @Id) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END as BIT)";
bool exists = db.ExecuteScalar<bool>(sql, new { Id = 123 });
You can have your query to return a bool:
[Test]
public void TestExists()
{
var sql = @"with data as
(
select 1 as 'Id'
)
select CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT Id FROM data WHERE Id = 1)
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS result
from data ";
var result = _connection.Query<bool>(sql).FirstOrDefault();
Assert.That(result, Is.True);
}
Another option that will run with duplicate records, i.e. not querying the id of the table
bool exists = connection.ExecuteScalar<int>(
"select count(1) from Table where notanId=@value", new { value = val})
> 0;
If you need to do this sort of query against a non-unique field you can use HAVING
to handle counts greater than 1.
SELECT 1
FROM Table
WHERE Col=@val
HAVING COUNT(1) > 0
imho SELECT TOP(1)
is better than SELECT COUNT(1)
bool exists = connection.Query<ValueTuple<long>>(
"SELECT top(1) Id FROM MYTABLE WHERE MYTABLE.Id=@Id",
new {Id}).Any());
The ValueTuple<long>
is value type . Query<object>
map to reference type and causes boxing .
conn.QuerySingleOrDefault<bool>("select top 1 1 from table where id=@id", new { id});