Great News.. I will look through the docs(although belive me I have already poored 
over them) and find out how to user query prefetching...

Thanks,
Scott
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> From: Thomas Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2002/09/25 Wed AM 02:16:42 EDT
> To: OJB Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Possible PB enchanement
> 
> You are lucky,
> 
> this is already implemented. We called this feature query prefetching.
> 
> cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> Scott Shealy wrote:
> > I was looking through the toplink api and they have a really nice
> > feature that really speeds up the performance of some queries when you
> > know you are going to access some of the children objects by going ahead
> > and loading them at initial query time.  
> > 
> > See the reference to the feature for this at (I think you have to have a
> > technet id but maybe not)
> > 
>http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/ias/doc_library/90200doc_otn/toplink.903/b10064/performa.htm#1025931
> > 
> > 
> > So for instance say you have 2 objects Item and Group
> > 
> > Item has as a member exacty one group.
> > 
> > Currently(at least with my limited knowledge of OJB) with a query by
> > collection you would generate N + 1 SQL statements.  One for the query
> > of the Item Collection  and one subsequent query to retrieve the Group 
> > for each Item returned by the Query. It would be nice if you could
> > specify ahead of time that you wanted to go ahead and load both in the
> > same query. So a SQL statement like this would generated ...
> > 
> >     SELECT item.col1,item.col2,group.col1,group col2  
> >     FROM item INNER JOIN group on group.group_id = item.group_id,
> > 
> > This would really be a performance enhancement when you know you are
> > going to accessing the group ahead of time.
> > 
> > In the top link api they use the following syntax to indicate that they
> > want to load the attribute in oneQuery,
> > 
> > query.addJoinedAttribute("group.col2");
> > 
> > Then the persistence layer is able to examine that and know what to do.
> > 
> > How would hard would this be to do for OJB?
> > 
> > The toplink API is also able to handle loading children collections in
> > two queries using a select distinct sql statement after loading the
> > initial collection .
> > 
> > I hope this made sense, if not please read the TOPLINK docs cause it
> > does a much better job of explaining this than me..
> > 
> > This feature would be really nice...
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > 
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