I agree with James, there are some queries you'd always want in SQL.

But Alessio, are you familiar with the Containable (formerly Bindable)
behaviour?
It's a nicer way to bind your models, including particular fields.

On Jul 2, 7:41 pm, James K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only disadvantage to this method is that you lose some of the
> "automagic" benefits of having cake pull and model the data. If you're
> pulling the data to populate a form, for instance, you'd have to set
> the values manually since the FormHelper won't understand how to
> interpret your custom result set.
>
> That said, there is significant overhead with using Cake's find
> functions and if you find it easier and/or more convenient to write
> your own queries, I say go for it. In fact, any sort of complex query
> should be hand-written IMO for the sake of performance. Cake doesn't
> try very hard to be efficient with the queries it generates beyond
> simple joins.
>
> On Jul 2, 12:37 pm, Alessio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > i am trying to use custom query for retrieving the data.
> > I noticed that using query ...I get the array filled in corretly and I
> > can choose very easily only the fields that i need...
> > And I can fill my data vars without removing or adding bind or unbind
> > model...
> > What about this method of getting data?
> > I use this because I need to load data always in my site...and I
> > noticed a very good performance....
> > using  model->query...()... with the join written by myself...
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