Yep... I decided the subquery was unnecessary and came up with
something similar to what you did below (which works as intended) -
thanks for the advice!

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Ramon Smits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Can't you just join in together??
>
>        select
>                art.Id,
>                count(*) as total
>        from
>                OrderLine as l
>                join l.Article as art
>                join art.Themes as t
>                join l.Order as o
>        where
>                t.Id = :themeId
>                and o.OrderState = 4
>        group by
>                art.Id
>        order by
>                total
>
> Then you could use the top X result of this query result..
>
> Just doing this straight from the head... but you get the idea.
>
> --
> Ramon
>
>
> On Oct 1, 1:20 pm, "Jamie Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm trying to write something in HQL which isn't coming very naturally
>> to me (I can do this in SQL no problem).
>>
>> Essentially I have
>>
>>             select art
>>             from Article as art
>>             join art.Themes as t
>>                     where art.Id in
>>                             (select l.Article.Id
>>                                     from OrderLine as l
>>                                             join l.Order as o
>>                                     where o.OrderState = 4
>>                      group by l.Article.Id
>>                      )
>>
>>                     and t.Id = :themeId
>>
>> This gets me all the "articles" for a specified "theme" where the
>> article has been ordered and the order.status = 4.
>>
>> This is fine, however in SQL I would have an ORDER BY within the
>> subquery so that I could order by a count, as I only want the top N
>> items ordered. I can't do the count in HQL because it would require me
>> to use SELECT TOP also, which isn't supported.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
> >
>

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