I'm dealing with some legacy vendor code that I can't modify. I'd like to wrap the database with an abstraction layer that is easier to use.
Given the following two tables, I need to create a mapping for Process.Route that will find the matching Route for a given Process, but that can be either dbo.Route.SourceProcessID or dbo.Route.DestinationProcessID:
TABLE [dbo].[Route](
[RouteID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[SourceProcessID] [bigint] NOT NULL,
[DestinationProcessID] [bigint] NOT NULL
TABLE [dbo].[Process](
[ProcessID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
)
It's not elegant, but I finally came up with the following: