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What's new for ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteDelete #3982

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@ajcvickers ajcvickers requested a review from a team August 16, 2022 10:59
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await context.Posts
.Where(p => p.PublishedOn.Year < 2022)
.ExecuteUpdateAsync(
s => s.SetProperty(b => b.Title, b => b.Title + " (" + b.PublishedOn.Year + ")")
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Maybe indent so that the SetProperty's are aligned

> Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_Posts_Authors_AuthorId". The conflict occurred in database "TphBlogsContext", table "dbo.Posts", column 'AuthorId'.
The statement has been terminated.

To fix this, we must first either delete the posts, or sever the relationship between each post and its author by setting `AuthorId` foreign key property to null. For example, using the delete option:
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I'd put the database cascading delete solution first, since it's really the thing to do wheter supported. Honestly, that's the universal relational way to do this, and this whole complexity is only because SQL Server doesn't support cycles... Like in PG I'd always recommend cascade deletes...

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I'd rather leave it the way it is, because talking about the problem first shows why cascades are useful.

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Makes sense!

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ajcvickers and others added 4 commits August 16, 2022 17:26
@ajcvickers ajcvickers merged commit 9abe33c into main Aug 17, 2022
@roji roji deleted the OffWithHerHead0814 branch August 17, 2022 11:46
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